Word.ws English Dictionary

scandal-ridden

scandal-ridden adjective: dominated or plagued by scandals.

Adjective

scandal-ridden (comparative more scandal-ridden, superlative most scandal-ridden)

  1. Dominated or plagued by scandals.
    • The scandal-ridden widget manufacturer, Fix-U-Up, was finally brought to trial, accused of flouting safety regulations.

Forms of scandal-ridden

comparativemore scandal-ridden
superlativemost scandal-ridden

Origin of scandal-ridden

From scandal + -ridden.

Questions about scandal-ridden

What does scandal-ridden mean?
Scandal-ridden means dominated or plagued by scandals.
What part of speech is scandal-ridden?
Scandal-ridden is an adjective.

Words near scandal-ridden in the dictionary

  1. scandal sheet
  2. scandal sheets
  3. scandal-monger
  4. scandal-mongers
  5. scandal-plagued
  6. scandal-ridden
  7. scandaled
  8. scandalette
  9. scandalettes
  10. scandaling
  11. scandalisation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scandal-ridden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scandal-ridden.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scandal-ridden. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.