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invective
English
Etymology
From Middle French invective, from Medieval Latin invectiva (“abusive speech”), from Latin invect?vus, from invectus, perfect passive participle of inveh? (“bring in”), from in + veh? (“carry”). See vehicle, and compare with inveigh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?v?kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?v
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Noun
invective (countable and uncountable, plural invectives)
- An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
- A harsh or reproachful accusation.
- Politics can raise invective to a low art.
Translations
Adjective
invective (comparative more invective, superlative most invective)
- Characterized by invection or railing.
- Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.
Synonyms
- (characterized by invection or railing): abusive, critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic, vituperative
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: invectivent, invectives
Noun
invective f (plural invectives)
- invective
Verb
invective
- first-person singular present indicative of invectiver
- third-person singular present indicative of invectiver
- first-person singular present subjunctive of invectiver
- third-person singular present subjunctive of invectiver
- second-person singular imperative of invectiver
Further reading
- “invective” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
invective
- first-person singular present subjunctive of invectivar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of invectivar
- third-person singular imperative of invectivar
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scandal
English
Etymology
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scand? (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.
Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skænd?l/
- Rhymes: -ænd?l
Noun
scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
- Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ??? (seukaendeul)
Translations
Verb
scandal (third-person singular simple present scandals, present participle scandalling or scandaling, simple past and past participle scandalled or scandaled)
- (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
- A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
Romanian
Etymology
From French scandale, from Latin scandalum.
Noun
scandal n (plural scandaluri)
- scandal
Declension
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