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scandal noun aspersion, attaint, bad name, bad repptation, bad repute, baseness, brand, censure, damaging report, dedecoration, defamation, degradation, disapproval, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, loss of honor, loss of reputation, malicious gossip, notoriety, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, shame, slur, stain, stigma, taint, talk, tarnish, tarnished honor, vilification Associated concepts: defamatory reports, deformatory rumors See also: defamation, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, ignominy, infamy, notoriety, odium, opprobrium, shame, slander SCANDAL. A scandalous verbal report or rumor respecting some person.
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Democrats owe a big part of their victory in this month's elections to Republican scandal-mongering. To see and celebrate such gifts, though, we need to shift our attention from the scandal-mongering headlines and dwell a bit among the ordinary folk who, despite every incentive to the contrary, continue gladly to call themselves Catholic. The scandal-mongering that beclouded Clinton's presidency represented both a venting of the Right's rage at liberalism's quiet victories on the issues of sex, race, and religion and an evasion of conservatisms own political weaknesses on those issues. |
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