Scapegoat
a scapegoat (noun) - someone blamed for something bad they did not do, blamed but not their faultX a scapegoat for Y - X blamed for doing or causing Y, but X did not do it (people had to find someone to blame)
a convenient scapegoat
an easy scapegoat
she is being used as a scapegoat for something he did wrong
the facts have come out, it looks like someone was looking for a scapegoat
the government was trying to find a scapegoat
made into a scapegoat for the company's failures
being made a scapegoat for all the ills of society
It wouldn't end until I had been turned into the scapegoat for all the things that had gone wrong
then try to find an external scapegoat to displace the attention of the disaffected population
the veils of ritual sacrifice which falsifies the nature of the crisis and moralizes the scapegoat mechanism
a useful scapegoat for the country's abysmal economic situation
It seems that throughout history during times of economic stress the search for a scapegoat is promoted and encouraged
city officials are using the homeless as a scapegoat for the city's economic downturn
no longer looking for a scapegoat, he's looking for a sacrificial lamb
We were not looking for a scapegoat. The sole purpose of our investigation was to determine the cause of that accident.
from the disturbance of order to the restoration of order is a reenactment of the scapegoat mechanism triggered in primitive societies by a social crisis
there's always somebody has to be a scapegoat for the President. It's the good cop-bad cop thing
if we will just muscle somebody and have a scapegoat, we'll win the day
there's always some scapegoat, isn't there?
just a convenient scapegoat?
he says he has been made a scapegoat
his defenders who say he has been made the scapegoat for the accident
So, they're trying to make him a scapegoat?
I suspect there's going to be a scapegoat that will be designated as the person responsib
the target of that anger, the scapegoat
I think, unfortunately, Neil is being made a scapegoat. There's a lot of other famous people who have sons involved too
claiming critics were making him a scapegoat
I'm sure she was used as a scapegoat
The easy way out is to turn Japan into a scapegoat
they're providing a fairly simple, easy scapegoat - blame it on some specific group, the Jews or the blacks, whoever
The U.S. intelligence community is " the quickest, easiest scapegoat
He may wind up being the scapegoat in the deal
The Cuban government seems to fear becoming a " scapegoat
the generative and organizing force behind the themes and motifs of the play is the scapegoat mechanism which culminates in sacrifice
Eventually, ritual sacrifices emerged as a form of imitating or recreating the scapegoat process, which the community remembered as its source of peace
the witness was made the scapegoat in this case
