Crossword-Solution: SCANDAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scandal | n. | Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. |
| Scandal | n. | Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. |
| Scandal | n. | Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. |
| Scandal | v. t. | To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. |
| Scandal | v. t. | To scandalize; to offend. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SCANDAL (5)
Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlarg’d Even to that Hill of scandal, by the Grove Of _Moloch_ homicide, lust hard by hate; Till good _Josiah_ drove them thence to Hell.
Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and _tracasseries_ to be no less the staple subject of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
For, let alone the god’s express command, It were a scandal ye should leave unpurged The murder of a great man and your king, Nor track it home.
What think ye, gossips? If the hussy stood up for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarded? Marry, I trow not.” “People say,” said another, “that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation.” “The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful overmuch—that is a truth,” added a third autumnal matron.
There,” she said as she opened the door into her own hall, “I shouldn’t have said that before the elevator boy.” “Even an elevator boy couldn’t make a scandal about Oliver.
Quotes with SCANDAL (3)
I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence …
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)
... The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 60 times in crossword archives (1945–2022).