scapegoat
IPA: skˈeɪpgoʊt
noun
- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
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Examples of "scapegoat" in Sentences
- Brahmins are merely the scapegoats.
- It was to be a scapegoat for the failure.
- The poor goat does look like a scapegoat.
- They became the scapegoats for the incident.
- The person named would be sacrificed as the scapegoat.
- The religious imagery of the scapegoat is also considered.
- They now need a scapegoat and the scapegoat is the young girl.
- Voroshilov is the scapegoat for the initial failures in Finland.
- The media considered Robertson to be a scapegoat for the incident.
- Each time the admin was the violator, and lysdexia their scapegoat.
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