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- Dictionaryscape·goat/ˈskāpˌɡōt/
noun
- 1. a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
- 2. (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).
verb
- 1. make a scapegoat of: "few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated"
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Jun 30, 2012 · A scapegoat is a person or animal that bears the blame for others or is the object of irrational hostility. The word comes from a biblical ritual in which a goat was sent into the wilderness with the sins of the people.
A scapegoat is a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, usage and pronunciation of scapegoat with Cambridge Dictionary.
Scapegoat definition: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.. See examples of SCAPEGOAT used in a sentence.
The word scapegoat first occurred in the earliest English translation of the Bible, and it has come to mean any individual punished for the misdeeds of others. When a politician gets caught lying, he or she might use an assistant as a scapegoat.
A scapegoat is a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, and usage of scapegoat with examples from various sources.
To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault.
noun. /ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/ a person who is blamed for something bad that somebody else has done or for some failure synonym fall guy. She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. People always need convenient scapegoats to blame for society's problems. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
