talk about the shocking and immoral aspects of someone's behaviour or something that has happened in English:

The scandal ruined his career.

He is the first national politician to be named in a widening corruption scandal.

She was taken in by that fake gold certificate scandal and lost most of her money.

Whether or not Imogen of the Internet will live out her life without causing national scandal depends entirely on Mark Zuckerberg's privacy policies.

The politician's reputation has been ruined by the scandal; he did something terrible and now everyone considers him to be a bad person.

I don't think we can keep the lid on the scandal much longer; people are bound to find out.

The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

When he was at the acme of his career, a scandal brought about his downfall.

That politician has come down in the world since the so-called "Recruit scandal" was publicized.

The Recruit scandal is a corruption scandal concerning public officials and politicians who accepted as bribes undisclosed shares from the RecruitCoscom company. The shares had been rising steadily.

That scandal will be known to everybody in the course of time.

A banking scandal is sweeping across Capitol Hill.

The political scandal blew over in no time and everything was back to business as usual.

The papers found lots of monkey business when they investigated the Recruit scandal.

Black money scandal, 11th of September, expenseuro, the Old Europe, Hartz IV, Madame Chancellor, fanmile, climatic catastrophe, financial crisis, wreckage bonus and citizen of anger are the last ten words of the year in Germany.