Disgrace vs. Scandal

Disgracenoun

The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

Scandalnoun

An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.

‘Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.’;

Disgracenoun

The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame

‘Now she lives in disgrace.’;

Scandalnoun

Damage to one's reputation.

‘The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.’;

Disgracenoun

(countable) Something which brings dishonor; the cause of shame or reproach; great discredit

‘His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men’;

Scandalnoun

Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.

‘When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.’;

Disgracenoun

(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

Scandalnoun

(theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.

Disgraceverb

(transitive) To put someone out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

Scandalnoun

(theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.

Disgracenoun

The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

‘Macduff lives in disgrace.’;

Scandalnoun

Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.

‘According to village scandal, they weren't even married.’;

Disgracenoun

The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.

‘To tumble down thy husband and thyselfFrom top of honor to disgrace's feet?’;

Scandalverb

(obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.

Disgracenoun

That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

Scandalverb

(obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.

Disgracenoun

An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

‘The interchange continually of favors and disgraces.’;

Scandalnoun

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

‘O, what a scandal is it to our crown,That two such noble peers as ye should jar!’; ‘[I] have brought scandalTo Israel, diffidence of God, and doubtIn feeble hearts.’;

Disgraceverb

To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

‘Flatterers of the disgraced minister.’; ‘Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed.’;

Scandalnoun

Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

‘You must not put another scandal on him.’; ‘My known virtue is from scandal free.’;

Disgraceverb

To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

‘Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace.’; ‘His ignorance disgraced him.’;

Scandalnoun

Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.

Disgraceverb

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.

‘The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace.’;

Scandalverb

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

‘I do fawn on men and hug them hardAnd after scandal them.’;

Disgracenoun

a state of dishonor;

‘one mistake brought shame to all his family’; ‘suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison’;

Scandalverb

To scandalize; to offend.

Disgraceverb

bring shame or dishonor upon;

‘he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime’;

Scandalnoun

disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

Disgraceverb

reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;

‘She tends to put down younger women colleagues’; ‘His critics took him down after the lecture’;

Scandalnoun

a disgraceful event

Disgraceverb

damage the reputation of;

‘This newspaper story discredits the politicians’;

Scandal

A scandal can be broadly defined as the strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way. These reactions are usually noisy and may be conflicting, and they often have negative effects on the status and credibility of the person(s) or organisation involved.

Disgrace

Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize.