scapegoat 的 2 个定义
- a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Leviticus 16:8,10,26.
- to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
scapegoat 近义词
person who takes blame for
更多scapegoat例句
- Growing up in the nineties, I saw California governor Pete Wilson attack immigrants with rhetoric that depicted them as scapegoats for America’s social and economic problems and with public policies like the infamous Proposition 187.
- A resurgence or continuation of the pandemic may also result in leaders seeking to distract their people the old fashioned way, by finding scapegoats and through nationalism.
- After Valencia left, she worried that the city’s response to Congress over facial recognition two years prior would come back to haunt her — and she feared becoming the scapegoat.
- They’ve been a frequent scapegoat during economic woes and disease outbreaks, and in wartime propaganda.
- The combination of affective polarization, racism, inequality, isolation and mistrust has radicalized a meaningful minority of the nation, making it easy to find scapegoats and boogeymen.
- They are vouching for Shadman, saying he is a scapegoat of a shoddy investigation.
- Smith, the current police chief, called Lee a “scapegoat” who was “thrown to the wolves” to satisfy political critics.
- And, as in countless other countries (Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria), LGBT people are a convenient scapegoat.
- Contending that he was being used as a scapegoat, Palmer asked for a trade.
- Instead, as the Democratic party proliferates a “war on women,” they choose Akin as the sole scapegoat.
- He felt himself "accursed by all," the "scapegoat on whom all the faults of Israel will be heaped with a curse."
- For a time Tommy Kerr, who had been twice run in, had served as a scapegoat, but that was little permanent help.
- The squatter had been the scapegoat upon which had been heaped the sins of a girl no one had thought capable of doing wrong.
- It came to nothing, but gave him as a scapegoat to the revilings of those with whom soldiers had become so unpopular.
- He pulled the unresisting scapegoat out of his chair and hustled him to the rear of the office.