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dictionary. A scandal is a strong social reaction to a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc. Scandal or The Scandal may also refer to:...

out the sentence. She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent and was fearful of the consequences, especially if, in retaliation...

military discipline, or when their conduct has been widely considered discreditable. In other cases, prominent nationals of countries with which the UK...

accepted that "most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means." Civil War historian James M. McPherson dedicates an entire chapter...

practicing before another regulatory body such as the SEC or the IRS. "Discreditable acts", which can include failure to follow applicable standards (such...

difficult and dangerous times. Some were even reformers, keen to root out discreditable practices such as simony. Others ordered the rebuilding and restoration...

confirm the usualness of another, and therefore is neither credible nor discreditable as a thing in itself." In Goffman's theory of social stigma, a stigma...

to entrap interviewees into making statements that are damaging or discreditable to their cause, character, integrity, or reputation. The term is rooted...

suspended and faced six charges under the Police Services Act, including discreditable conduct and insubordination. Her first court hearing was held over Zoom...

role in the Ballinger–Pinchot affair. When hearings led to nothing discreditable about Brandeis, Taft intervened with a letter signed by himself and...

recipient's name to be erased from the official register in certain wholly discreditable circumstances and his pension cancelled. Eight were forfeited between...

somewhat obscured because his brother Harold removed what he considered discreditable passages in Owen's letters and diaries after the death of their mother...

Manchester Guardian writing, "The Government has failed most frightfully and discreditably in the matter of munitions." Failures in both the East and the West...

so as fortune has given immortal glory to what some would consider a discreditable mistake I will even take it as it came and add the 'O' to the end of...

Lyndon Locke did not face criminal charges after he pleaded guilty to discreditable conduct over sexual assault and utter death threats allegations, instead...

public affairs are generally good-for-nothing men, with whom it is discreditable to be compared, and miserable and dangerous to contend, especially when...

any but the silliest of possible meanings into our statements is as discreditable to their imaginations as anything I know in recent philosophic history...

recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed... matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence." As a consequence this...

smoking cigarettes in movies unless the women being portrayed were of "discreditable" character and other women's groups asked young girls to sign pledges...

audience can mark the difference between being discredited or merely discreditable". Other factors may include risk, context, and intimacy. Different contexts...