I don't want any public scandal, for your brother's sake.
A failed Government mission is always treated as a public scandal.
There has no' been a public scandal in this family for over six hundred years.
Even if she chose to create a public scandal, it would be none of his business.
The double marriage was to be done in secret, however, to avoid public scandal.
There are continuing public scandals about patient care at the hospital.
He needed an excuse to create a public scandal, and here it was.
Johnson, with the President's help, had avoided a public scandal that almost certainly would have ended his political career.
The construction of this project went through several public scandals.
By then, however, what might normally have been a private affair had already become a public scandal.