scandal

01. The Prime Minister had to resign after a [scandal] was revealed in which he had hired the services of a prostitute.

02. The tabloids are full of [scandalous] stories of celebrities.

03. The people of the U.S. were [scandalized] by President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

04. She preferred to have an abortion rather than risk the [scandal] of having a baby when she wasn't even married.

05. My grandmother loves reading about all the [scandals] that movie stars get into.

06. The [scandal] resulted in the resignation of a key member of the British government.

07. The bank is under investigation following a financial [scandal] in which some elderly women were robbed of their savings.

08. There is an African proverb which states that [scandal] is like an egg; when it is hatched it has wings.

09. Walter Bagehot once said, "In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without [scandal]."

10. George Farquhar once stated that there is no [scandal] like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

11. Prince Bernhard, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, was once implicated in a business [scandal], and had to retire from public life as a result.

12. In 1996, federal police charged seven political leaders in India, including six former Cabinet Ministers, in connection with an $18 million [scandal].

13. In March of 1994, Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa resigned over a loan [scandal].

14. In the 1400s, the [scandalous] and corrupt life of the higher clergy in Europe began to draw sharp criticism.