scapegoat
noun/ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/
/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 Dictionaryadjective- convenient
- easy
- become
- find
- make somebody
- …
- scapegoat for
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from archaic scape ‘escape’ + goat.Definitions on the go
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