Synonyms for scapegoat
ˈskeɪpˌgoʊtscape·goat

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1. scapegoatnoun

   To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

   He is making me a scapegoat.

   Synonyms:
   fall guy, patsy, whipping boy

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1. scapegoat, whipping boynoun

   someone who is punished for the errors of others

   Synonyms:
   whipping boy

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1. • Victim

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1. List of paraphrases for "scapegoat":

   scapegoating, patsy, emissary, outfall

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1. Sarah Henchoz:

   I have had some clients with staff resistant to being a senior manager, worried they are going to be kept awake at night about what their team is doing, and if something goes wrong, will they be the scapegoat.

2. Bryan Hershman:

   They need to have a scapegoat, they can draw no connection to my client, none, and they’ve tried.

3. Tim Burchett:

   The Biden administration has completely failed to protect our borders, and now it's trying to find a scapegoat, mayorkas should be the one to resign.

4. Edward Hoagland:

   Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

5. Mark Schmidt:

   (The government) are making police the scapegoat and creating a situation that is becoming unbearable for everyone who lives here. So that's one of the reasons we have joined the strike, losing a bit of money now is not such a problem,(compared) with losing everything that the freedom of Hong Kong used to stand for.