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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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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Gossip 76% connected

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Skeleton 76% connected

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

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Outrageous 74% connected

Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.

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Outrageous 74% connected

Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.

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Dirt 92% connected

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

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Outrage 92% connected

To rage in excess of.

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