growing scandal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandscandal
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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scandal
noun
uk/ˈskæn.dəl/us/ˈskæn.dəl/
(an action or event that causes) a public feeling of shock and strong ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandscandalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They are a rapidlygrowingscandal.
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In regard to dockyards, this is agrowingscandal.
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Finally, there is thegrowingscandalof forced resale.
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This is a great scandal, even if it is not agrowingscandal.
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Can we have a debate on thegrowingscandalof unemployment?
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Clearly, nothing can be done about that continuing andgrowingscandal.
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This is agrowingscandaland something must be done about it.
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It seems to me to be a very sensible way of dealing will a scandal—and agrowingscandal.
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The insufficiency of factory inspection has been, as my noble friend said, agrowingscandalfor many years.
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Only from the outside did an accumulation of critics and agrowingscandalabout the neglect of children's programmes eventually force her resignation.
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Does she not believe that three years' official consultation while thegrowingscandalof mini-cabs goes on is far too long?
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We continued to put the case of thegrowingscandalof land prices and the way in which they were twisting development in the community.
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I wonder whether it is agrowingscandal, although it is certainly distressing when buildings that might be put to better and newer use are not so put.
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It is agrowingscandalas a result of the growing shortage of houses partly due to the lack of building and partly due to destruction.
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For a considerable time it has been an obvious andgrowingscandalthat people come to this country largely drawn by the attractiveness of our social security system.
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He also commented that the suspect congressmen were being accused for acts perpetrated before he assumed the presidency in 2002 as a way of distancing himself from thegrowingscandal.
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