Careful Words

scandal (n.)

  No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 413.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Lucrece. Line 1006.