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• Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
• O, what a scandal is it to our crown, / That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
• But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
• Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.[...]But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three—what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
• The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
• Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:.
• When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
• According to village scandal, they weren't even married.
• Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
• I do fawn on men and hug them hard / And after scandal them.