scapegoat
பலியாடு
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'
பிறர் பழி சுமப்பவன்,
பலியாடு
example
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
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.
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.
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.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
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.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
I'm sick of being 'scapegoated' by people who don't know what they're talking about.
The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually 'scapegoated' .
Elsewhere teaching and public sector unions, along with aid agencies, charities and student groups, have been prominent in challenging the 'scapegoating' of refugees and their children.
Like the dogs, the 'scapegoats' were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
The sacrifice of the guilty victim through collective violence ends the crisis and founds a new order ordained by the divine. Violence and 'scapegoating' are always present in the mythological definition of the divine itself.
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing 'scapegoats' and hypothetical enemies.
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 quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming 'scapegoats' , but the prevention of future tragedies.
When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and 'scapegoats' to blame where our children are concerned?
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.
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
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.
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