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# scandal

«scandal» in Mova's school dictionary: **something wrong or shameful that people find out about…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a scandal, scandals; scandal, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A scandal is something wrong or shameful that people find out about and are shocked by, such as a famous person lying or cheating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#m1)

2) Scandal is talk and gossip about such things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#m2)

3) (informal) "It's a scandal" means something is very unfair or wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in news, tabloids and gossip. In media lessons, children learn that a scandal is often reported loudly and some details may be rumours. Phrases: «cause a scandal», «a political scandal», «a scandal broke», «caught up in a scandal», «It's a scandal that…».

### examples

- The scandal was on the front page of every newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x1)
- The footballer was caught up in a cheating scandal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x2)
- It's a scandal that the park has no toilets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x3)
- The minister lost her job after the scandal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x4)
- Tabloids love scandal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x5)
- The village was buzzing with scandal about the missing cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x6)
- When the scandal broke, the singer said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x7)
- For fear of scandal he kept the matter quiet and searched everywhere he could think of, but all to no purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/#x8)

### note

Countable for one event («two scandals»), uncountable for gossip in general («full of scandal»). Adjective: scandalous; verb: scandalise/scandalize (shock). Not every rumour is a true scandal; check the facts.

### In the corpora

- [Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scandal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scandal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.