Synonym: whipping boy. Similar words: landscape, goat, boat, float, throat, goad, go all out, go about. Meaning: n. someone punished for the errors of others.
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31. But last night, his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat.
32. The sergeant, the proverbial piggy-in-the-middle, was the ready scapegoat for both juniors and superiors.
33. Perhaps he simply died; but perhaps also he was made a scapegoat for his Persian policy.
34. Boudjema believes that the opposition parties are settling a score with the Socialist government and using the schoolgirls as a scapegoat.
35. And when a problem can not be brushed aside, then a scapegoat must be found.
36. He has become a scapegoat and an excuse, so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age.
37. She was the scapegoat - Harriet(Sentence dictionary), the destroyer of her family.
38. These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords.
39. Pan Am was delivered to the courts hamstrung, bankrupt and ripe for dispatch as a scapegoat.
40. Some one, after all, has to play scapegoat. Let your fingers do the talking Got the message?
41. The public is looking for a scapegoat, but no one will be accused until a full inquiry has been held.
42. Therefore the Venetian world makes him their scapegoat.
43. Yet this President Bush is not a good scapegoat.
44. In an election year, politicians will need a scapegoat.
45. Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today.
46. The essence of archaic religiosity is the scapegoat mechanism.
47. Gurus offer convenient excuses to sleepwalking traders who need a scapegoat for their losses.
48. She became a convenient scapegoat in a political battle between her friend Orestes, the governor of Alexandria, and the city's archbishop, Cyril, and was killed by a mob of Christian zealots.
49. Unlike other self-balancing binary search trees that provide worst case O(log n) lookup time, scapegoat trees have no additional per-node overhead compared to a regular binary search tree.
50. In each case, they have a ready scapegoat – the government.
51. This reasoning holds obvious appeal for those looking for a scapegoat.
52. The politicians would try to make a scapegoat of him.
53. They ask me to join the party so that I'll be their scapegoat when trouble comes.
54. He claimed he had been a scapegoat for the administration's failures.
55. He had been made the scapegoat for all the failures of the Luftwaffe.
56. He got what he wanted and left me in the lurch as a scapegoat.
57. "China is a really easy scapegoat," said Erika Franklin Fowler, a political science professor at Wesleyan University who is director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.
58. This means to be the scapegoat, to be blamed for something that someone else did.
59. FRS 17 RETIREMENT BENEFITS - THE SCAPEGOAT FOR POOR PENSION PLANNING?
60. She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence.