scandal

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, great, major

▪ current, recent

▪ national, public

▪ abuse, accounting, bribery, corporate, corruption, doping, drug (esp. AmE), drugs (esp. BrE), financial, political, sex, sexual

▪

a sex-abuse scandal

▪

the prisoner-abuse scandal

▪ real

▪

The real scandal is that nothing has been done to make sure it doesn't happen again.

… OF SCANDALS

▪ series, spate, wave

▪

The government was rocked by a series of scandals.

VERB + SCANDAL

▪ cause, create

▪ avoid, prevent

▪ investigate

▪ expose, reveal, uncover

▪ cover up, hush up

▪ be embroiled in, be implicated in, be involved in

▪

There have been calls for the resignation of the official involved in the sex scandal.

SCANDAL + VERB

▪ be brewing (esp. AmE), break, develop, erupt, unfold

▪

The scandal broke on the front pages of all the papers the next day.

▪ rock sth

▪ involve sb/sth

▪ engulf sb/sth (esp. BrE), surround sb/sth

▪

financial scandals surrounding the government

SCANDAL + NOUN

▪ sheet (= a newspaper that publishes stories intended to shock the public)

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the scandal

▪

He was imprisoned for his part in the bribery scandal.

▪ scandal over

▪

the scandals over corruption in public life

PHRASES

▪ the centre/center of a scandal

▪

The apartment was paid for by the bank at the centre/center of the scandal.

▪ a hint of scandal, a suggestion of scandal

▪

Until the story was published there had been no hint of scandal.

▪ in the wake of a scandal

▪

In the wake of recent accounting scandals, new cases have come to light.