SCANDAL

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Traducere în limba română

scandal I. substantiv

1. ruşine, afront.

2. cancan, bârfeală, mahalagism; calomniere, defăimare;

to be / lie under scandal a avea un renume prost.

3. scandal; necaz, supărare;

to create a scandal a face un scandal.

scandal II. verb tranzitiv

a bârfi, a defăima, a calomnia.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Wait a little,” he said. “You go too fast. We should certainly make every effort to avoid scandal in so delicate a matter.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She wrote me dreadful letters when she heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Without any open scandal, he still made India too hot to hold him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The thing approached the proportions of a scandal—then died away.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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