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scapegoat
[ skeyp-goht ]
noun
- a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Leviticus 16:8,10,26.
verb (used with object)
- to make a scapegoat of:
Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
scapegoat
/ ˈɪˌɡəʊ /
noun
- a person made to bear the blame for others
- Old Testament a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sent into the wilderness to be destroyed
verb
- tr to make a scapegoat of
scapegoat
- A person or group that is made to bear blame for others. According to the Old Testament , on the Day of Atonement , a priest would confess all the sins of the Israelites over the head of a goat and then drive it into the wilderness, symbolically bearing their sins away.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scapegoat1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scapegoat1
Example Sentences
Instead, populism has become a movement driven by the extreme right, whereby social division and scapegoating are camouflaged as something else.
And in one of the cruelest turns, fans would forever blame Ono—would scapegoat her—for breaking up The Beatles.
It’s looking increasingly likely that the longer Trump waits to come up with a viable scapegoat the more he risks getting some of the mess on his own clothes.
He didn’t directly answer my question about whether he thought Crowley did everything she could, asserting that she was scapegoated without an official investigation.
So feeding distrust in government primes people to look for scapegoats.
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