scapegoat
ബലിയാടാണ്
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
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
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.
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.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
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.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
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.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
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.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
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.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
It was 'scapegoated' just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
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.
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually 'scapegoated' .
As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating 'scapegoats' and lamenting mistakes.
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.
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.
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.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
Jesus never 'scapegoated' people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
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