scapegoat
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definition
verb
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
make a scapegoat of.
noun
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
example
When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a 'scapegoat' to blame the problem on.
Teenagers have always been an easy 'scapegoat' to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a 'scapegoat' - they have made some mistakes.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a 'scapegoat' to take the blame away from ourselves.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
Like the dogs, the 'scapegoats' were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as 'scapegoats' for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been 'scapegoated' for the party's failure to make any political headway.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing 'scapegoats' and hypothetical enemies.
She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly 'scapegoated' and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated.
However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy 'scapegoats' .
It was 'scapegoated' just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
Both dogs and 'scapegoats' will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
I think there's been a great deal of ignorance and a lot of 'scapegoating' and a lot of fear about the existence of same-sex, loving relationships.
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