Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.

synoniemen: dirt, malicious gossip.

Roget 945: vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness etc. adj.; iniquity, peccability^†, demerit; sin, Adam^†; old Adam^†, offending Adam^†.    immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy^†, dophagy^†, exophagy^†; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity^†, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality etc. (malevolence) 907; corruption etc. (debasement) 659; knavery etc. (improbity) 940^†; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.    infirmity; weakness etc. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.    lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den^†; gusto picaresco [It].    fault, crime; criminality etc. (guilt) 947.    sinner etc. 949.    [Resorts] brothel etc. 961; gambling house etc. 621; joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 532: news; information etc. 527; piece of news [Fr.], budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings.    word, advice, aviso [Sp.], message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram^†, wire, communication, errand, embassy.    report, rumor, hearsay, on dit [Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.    bulletin, fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings; flash, news just in; on-the-spot coverage; live coverage.    old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut [Slang].    narrator etc. (describe) 594; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.    [study of news reporting] journalism.    [methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication etc. 531; radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission). [organizations producing news reports] [methods of conveying news] United Press International, UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York Times News Service, NYT; Reuters [Brit.]; TASS [Rus.]; The Nikkei [Jap.].    [person reporting news as a profession] newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department; anchorman, anchorwoman^†; sportscaster; weatherman.    [officials providing news for an organization] press secretary, public relations department, public relations man.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 874: disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation etc. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness etc. adj.; degradation, dedecoration^†; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.    dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness^†; turpitude etc. (improbity) 940^†; infamy.    tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.    stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.    crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain^†, point champain^†; byword of reproach; Ichabod.    argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame etc. 879.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 934: detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation^†, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum [Lat.].    personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse [Fr.]; roorback [U.S.].    sarcasm, cynicism; criticism (disapprobation) 932; invective etc. 932; envenomed tongue; spretae injuria formae [Lat.].    personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse [Fr.]; roorback [U.S.].    detractor etc. 936.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 938: accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration^†, delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination^†, recrimination; tu quoque argument [Lat.]; invective etc. 932.    denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment^†; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit etc. 969; condemnation etc. 971.    gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.]; scandal etc. (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum [Lat.].    accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant.    accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent; litigant.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: geroddel, smeerlapperij

A disgraceful event.

synoniem: outrage.

Nederlands: schandaal
Pools: afera, awantura, chryja, granda, skandal