Synonyms of the word

scandal

• n. An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
• n. Damage to one's reputation.
• n. Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
• n. (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
• n. (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
• n. Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
• v. (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
• v. (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

dirt

• n. Soil or earth.
• n. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
• n. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip.
• n. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
• n. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

outrage

• n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
• n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
• n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
• n. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
• v. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To violate; to rape (a female).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

scuttlebutt

• n. (nautical, countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.