Scandalous - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: scandalousScandal
Scandal, a report or rumour, or an action whereby one is affronted in public.Disgraceful, shameful, or degrading acts or conducts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1345.Scandal, in pleadings, is injurious, by making the records of the court the means of perpetuating libellous and malignant slanders; and the Court, in aid of the public morals, is bound to interfere to suppress such indecencies.It is provided by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 27, that scandalous matter may be ordered to be struck out from any pleading, and by Ord. XXXVIII., r. 11, from affidavits.Scandal, consists in the allegation of anything which is unbecoming the dignity of the court to hear, or is contrary to decency or good manners, or which charges some person with a crime not necessary to be shown in the cause, to which may be added that any unnecessary allegation, bearing cruelly upon the moral character of an individual, is also scandalous. The matter alleged must not be only offensive, but also irrel...
Scandalousness
Quality of being scandalous...
Scandalous matter
Scandalous matter, is a matter that is both grossly disgraceful or defamatory and irrelevant to the action or defence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1345...
slander
slander : to utter slander against slan·der·er n n [Anglo-French esclandre, from Old French escandle esclandre scandal, from Late Latin scandalum moral stumbling block, disgrace, from Greek skandalon, literally, snare, trap] 1 : defamation of a person by unprivileged oral communication made to a third party ;also : defamatory oral statements 2 : the tort of oral defamation [sued his former employer for ] compare defamation, false light, libel NOTE: An action for slander may be brought without alleging and proving special damages if the statements in question have a plainly harmful character, as by imputing to the plaintiff criminal guilt, serious sexual misconduct, or conduct or a characteristic affecting his or her business or profession. slan·der·ous [slan-də-rəs] adj slan·der·ous·ly adv slan·der·ous·ness n ...
bungled
performed poorly or inadequately as a bungled job the Watergate scandal started with a bungled burglary...
Flagitious
Disgracefully or shamefully criminal grossly wicked scandalous shameful said of acts crimes etc...
Furciferous
Rascally scandalous...
Infamously
In an infamous manner or degree scandalously disgracefully shamefully...
Paraleipsis
A pretended or apparent omission a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions as for example if an orator should say ldquoI do not speak of my adversarys scandalous venality and rapacity his brutal conduct his treachery and malicerdquo...
Scandal
Offense caused or experienced reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong criminal heinous or flagrant opprobrium or disgrace...
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