SCAPEGOAT
Scapegoat
In modern usage a scapegoat is an individual, group, or country singled out for unmerited negative treatment or blame. A whipping boy, "fall guy" or "patsy" is a form of scapegoat.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Scapegoat
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scapegoat
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 punished for the error or errors of someone else.
- He is making me a scapegoat.
Verb
- To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
- Don't scapegoat me for your mistake.
- To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
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