n.
an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.
▸outrage, rumour, or gossip arising from this.
Derivative
- scandalous adj.
- scandalously adv.
- scandalousness n.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘discredit to religion’): from OFr. scandale, from eccles. L. scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Gk skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’.
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