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Definitionn. someone who is punished for the errors of others
Last update: January 14, 2017
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She became the scapegoat for her friend's doing. [noun]
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Shooting the Messenger The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society 's ills. [noun]
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She said: He has been made a scapegoat for Charles Clarke 's mess. [noun]
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A scapegoat, belike, to suffer for higher scoundrels. [noun]
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He was the scapegoat of the past, and had to answer for a system of plunder that made Mazarin the richest man in France. [noun]
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I am being made a scapegoat of. [noun]
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No one has the right to flee from danger; no one can serve as a scapegoat. [noun]
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Abchester demanded a scapegoat. [Please select]
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We have made him the scapegoat for our sins. [Please select]
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It was his misfortune to be the scapegoat upon whose head parliament laid the accumulated sins, real and imaginary, of the East India Company. [Please select]
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Even the wiser ones were spared only by having their offenses visited upon a scapegoat. [Please select]
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