Scandalously

Definition

scandal /'skændl/ n ၁။ (က) [U,C] မေကာင္းသတင္း။ အပုပ္နံ႔။ The scandal broke (ie became known to the public) in 1994. ❍ attempts to hush up the scandal ❍ A series of corruption scandals led to the fall of the government. (ခ) [U, sing] ဟိုးေလးတေက်ာ္။ Her arrest for theft caused (a) scandal in the village. ၂။ [U] အတင္းအဖ်င္း။ မေကာင္းသတင္း။ spread scandal ❍ Further scandal concerning the bishop appeared in yesterday's tabloids. ၃။ [sing] ေက်ာ္မေကာင္း ၾကားမေကာင္းစရာ။ It is a scandal that the defendant was declared innocent. ❍ The council's failure to act is a scandal. ❏ scandalize, -ise /'skændǝlaÇz/ v မ်က္စိရွက္စရာ လုပ္ျပသည္။ scandalize the neighbours by sunbathing naked on the lawn. ❏ scandalous /'skændǝlǝs/ adj ၁။ မ်က္စိရွက္စရာ။ နားရွက္ စရာ။ ေက်ာ္မေကာင္း ၾကားမေကာင္း။ scandalous behaviour/ talk/ pictures ❍ It is scandalous that you were treated so badly. ၂။ မေတာ္တေရာ္၊ မေကာင္း (သတင္း)။ ❏ scandalously adv မေတာ္တေရာ္။ မတန္တဆ။ scandalously low pay.

Examples

1. A sex scandal
2. The company has been damaged by a series of financial scandals.
3. [a scandal breaks] : When the scandal broke
4. many people called for the President’s impeachment.
5. [a hint of scandal] : Any further hint of scandal and he’ll be forced to resign.
6. He was tired of the endless stream of scandal offered by the tabloid press.
7. [scandal of] : The government has failed to deal with the scandal of homelessness.
8. [it’s a scandal that] : It’s a scandal that companies can charge so much for phone calls.