Scandal
Related: controversy - shock value - succès de scandale
Definition
# A publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society: a drug scandal that forced the mayor's resignation.# A person, thing, or circumstance that causes or ought to cause disgrace or outrage: a politician whose dishonesty is a scandal; considered the housing shortage a scandal. --AHD
Story of O
... Even twenty years after publication the novel was considered, "in some quarters," Pauline Reage maintained, "the most scandalous book ever written". ...
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