scandal

noun7

1. •
   wrong behavior that becomes publicly known and badly harms the good name of those who did it

   • Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
2. •
   Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.

   • When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
3. •
   Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.

   • According to village scandal, they weren't even married.
4. •
   Damage to one's reputation.

   • The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
5. •
   A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
6. •
   (Philippines, informal) commotion.
7. •
   (Philippines, informal) amateur or homemade pornography

verb2

1. •
   (no longer used) To defame; to slander.

   • I do fawn on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. — 1599
2. •
   (no longer used) To scandalize; to offend.

   • A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure — 1855

noun2

1. •
   Ellipsis of SCANDAL process (“the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on”).
2. •
   Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon (“a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process”).

phrase1

1. •
   Acronym of speciated by cancer development animals.