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scapegoat

noun as in person who takes blame for another's action

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They are vouching for Shadman, saying he is a scapegoat of a shoddy investigation.

Smith, the current police chief, called Lee a “scapegoat” who was “thrown to the wolves” to satisfy political critics.

And, as in countless other countries (Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria), LGBT people are a convenient scapegoat.

Contending that he was being used as a scapegoat, Palmer asked for a trade.

Instead, as the Democratic party proliferates a “war on women,” they choose Akin as the sole scapegoat.

He felt himself "accursed by all," the "scapegoat on whom all the faults of Israel will be heaped with a curse."

For a time Tommy Kerr, who had been twice run in, had served as a scapegoat, but that was little permanent help.

The squatter had been the scapegoat upon which had been heaped the sins of a girl no one had thought capable of doing wrong.

It came to nothing, but gave him as a scapegoat to the revilings of those with whom soldiers had become so unpopular.

He pulled the unresisting scapegoat out of his chair and hustled him to the rear of the office.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scapegoat, such as: fall guy, chump, doormat, dupe, fool, and goat.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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