scapegoats

/S K EY1 P G OW0 T S/

noun

1
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
2
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
“He is making me a scapegoat.”

Synonyms

verb

1
To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
2
To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

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