Examples of 'scapegoat' in a sentence
Meaning of "scapegoat"
A 'scapegoat' is a person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done, often as a way to divert attention or avoid accountability
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- 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.
- To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
How to use "scapegoat" in a sentence
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Even a scapegoat could not cheat you.
The police are making an innocent man a scapegoat.
You want a scapegoat for your campaign.
They turned him into a scapegoat too.
Germany needs a scapegoat to justify its misfortune.
Scapegoat are an experimental saxophone and percussion duo.
I have always been the scapegoat in this family.
He was a scapegoat for flaws in an accepted training practise.
We have not found a scapegoat for so long.
Do not scapegoat that aspect of your personality.
We have always had a scapegoat in this country.
The scapegoat in both of these cases was globalization.
He was widely seen as a scapegoat for political failures.
Now you are just looking for a scapegoat.
Even a scapegoat could not fool you.
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He wants me to be the scapegoat for his son.
To have a good lawyer is sufficient and a scapegoat.
Do not you ever scapegoat my department again.
That would make him the scapegoat.
He needed a scapegoat to buy him some time.
I can not let my boys be the scapegoat.
Everyone wants a scapegoat for old cases.
And they are also asking for a scapegoat.
A heathen seeks a scapegoat when grief strikes.
Biofuels seem to have become that scapegoat.
They needed a scapegoat so they accused my father.
You hired me in case you needed a scapegoat.
We need a scapegoat for our next move.
They might need a better scapegoat soon.
Look for a scapegoat somewhere else.
Sounds like they are looking for a scapegoat.
Or some slogan as a scapegoat to which to apportion blame.
They might just be looking for a scapegoat.
We are often made the scapegoat of government policy.
I can not let my boysbe the scapegoat.
The fate of the scapegoat is eventual death.
The thirteen roses became the scapegoat.
Scapegoat parishioner embezzles church funds and disappears.
Thomas almost became the scapegoat today.
A perfect scapegoat for their incompetence.
How your efforts in securing a scapegoat are progressing.
It is not permissible to call a sinner or a disbeliever a scapegoat.
They want to make a scapegoat out of him.
Might be so unbearable that you created a scapegoat.
The elites have no scapegoat this time.
First thing i am gonna look for is a scapegoat.
I no longer use alcohol as a scapegoat for my shortcomings.
These images show the execution of a scapegoat.
Find a scapegoat for the cards.
They will turn him into a scapegoat.
