scapegoat
પ્યાદું
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).
translation of 'scapegoat'
બીજાના વાંકદોષ કે અપરાધનું ફળ ભોગવનાર વ્યક્તિ,
પ્યાદું
example
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.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
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.
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?
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
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 point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing 'scapegoats' and hypothetical enemies.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming 'scapegoats' , but the prevention of future tragedies.
‘The issue of marriage is not going to go away, and the Republican 'scapegoating' of our community is not going to go away,’ he argued.
But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking 'scapegoats' to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
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.
That is why we will carry on campaigning against the warmongers, privatisers and 'scapegoaters' .
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.
But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on 'scapegoats' .
As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating 'scapegoats' and lamenting mistakes.
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 media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually 'scapegoated' .
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