The phrase "avoid the scandal of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to prevent or steer clear of a controversial or damaging situation.
Example: "The politician decided to avoid the scandal of misusing public funds by being transparent about his financial dealings."
Alternatives: "steer clear of the controversy" or "prevent the embarrassment of".
To avoid the scandal of unworthy members, Wesley published, in 1743, Rules for the Methodist societies.
In an interview, the Olympics Minister said her priority was to avoid the scandal of empty seats seen in Beijing last year by putting together "family packages" aimed at less well-off people living outside the capital.
Jean's baby hadn't been stolen or snatched or forcibly removed: she had elected to hand him over to the Foundling Hospital, to avoid the scandal of raising a child born outside of marriage.
The year after Pierre died, she threatened to sue Michel over the ownership of a family necklace; he discovered it in his wife's jewel box and gave it back, hoping to avoid the scandal of a court case — after which she spent a long, bitter, and contentious widowhood in the company of a granddaughter who seems to have been the only relative she liked.
This enduring condescension, the idea of the author as a vessel for the ideas of other people — a fiction in which the author participated, so as to avoid the scandal of her own brain — goes some way to explaining why "Frankenstein" has accreted so many wildly different and irreconcilable readings and restagings in the two centuries since its publication.
Zdenka, anxious to avoid the public scandal of formal divorce, persuaded him to settle for an "informal" divorce.
(Before the revolution, he'd been invited to perform at the US embassy in Syria, where it was agreed he would rap under his birth name in order to avoid the potential scandal of a State Department performance that featured a devout Muslim rapper named "Murder Eyez").. Of those rappers who stayed behind in Syria, some are now soldiers for either Assad or the Free Syrian Army.
Silbermann has not followed Silicon Valley's playbook of chasing growth at all costs: By eschewing a "move fast and break things" culture, Pinterest has avoided the scandals that have hurt some of its Silicon Valley peers.
In many ways, Cohn's National Economic Council was one of the most stable parts of the White House, avoiding the scandals and revolving-door image that the National Security Council and other offices endured.
Many financial firms, eager to avoid the whiff of scandal, have suspended or pulled back on the use of expert networks.
Unless you've been living under a rock, it would be hard to avoid the whirlwind of scandal currently engulfing Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
