scandals
SKAN-duhlz/ˈskændəlz/
- 1Plural of scandal.
A string of corruption scandals forced three ministers to resign.
The biographer devoted entire chapters to the actor's many scandals.
Note
The plural belongs to the incident meaning, where each scandal is a separate affair: corruption scandals, a politician's many scandals. When scandal names the damage to a reputation, the public outrage itself or the gossip around it, it usually stays a mass noun (the affair caused scandal), so choosing the plural tells the reader you are counting distinct events, not describing a mood.
scandals is a form of scandal
scandal, noun: An event or action that disgraces the people or organization involved and damages their reputation. Full entry
- Forms
- scandalscandals plural
- Spelling
- scandal → scandals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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