Definition of scapegoat in English:

scapegoat

noun ˈskeɪpɡəʊtˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt

1A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
代人受过者，替罪羊
Example sentencesExamples
- Leaders will deny, blame, seek scapegoats, and retreat to their offices.
- Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a scapegoat to take the blame away from ourselves.
- When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a scapegoat to blame the problem on.
- The obvious thing to do would be to find a scapegoat, so they blame it on the bugs.
- As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating scapegoats and lamenting mistakes.
- ‘The focus is on scapegoats and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
- But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on scapegoats.
- A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular scapegoat for its emergence.
- But the animal is the convenient scapegoat, and easily blamed.
- However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy scapegoats.
- Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame scapegoats for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system.
- The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence.
- When there is a problem, there always is a scapegoat to blame.
- Teenagers have always been an easy scapegoat to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
- What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing scapegoats and hypothetical enemies.
- They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as scapegoats for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
- We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a scapegoat - they have made some mistakes.
- The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies.
- When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and scapegoats to blame where our children are concerned?
- But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking scapegoats to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever.
Synonyms
whipping boy, victim, Aunt Sally
North American goat
informal fall guy
North American informal patsy
2(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
〈圣经〉替罪羊（《利未记》16）
Example sentencesExamples
- Both dogs and scapegoats will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
- Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.

verb ˈskeɪpɡəʊtˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt

[with object]

Make a scapegoat of.
使成为…的替罪羊
few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated
it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to scapegoat anyone.
- One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were scapegoated during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence.
- He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives scapegoat gays and lesbians.
- And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents.
- He says that he feels he had been scapegoated by the press.
- Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to scapegoat others for Government failures?
- For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to scapegoat one person or another.
- I'm sick of being scapegoated by people who don't know what they're talking about.
- Young Irish people are being scapegoated as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday.
- And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting scapegoated, and I absolutely stand by that.
- The question is, does it serve us to scapegoat people now?
- Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been scapegoated for the party's failure to make any political headway.
- It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
- She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly scapegoated and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated.
- The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually scapegoated.
- Jesus never scapegoated people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups.
- The point of this letter is not to scapegoat doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
- It is not a moral value to scapegoat undocumented immigrants.
- The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
- Asylum seekers should not be scapegoated for our longstanding social problems.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from archaic scape 'escape' + goat.

In the biblical Book of Leviticus God tells Moses that the Jewish people should take two goats and cast lots to determine their fate—the chief priest is to lay the sins of the people on one before driving it out into the wilderness, while the other is to be sacrificed. The animal driven away is the scapegoat. This was the only context in which the word appeared until the early 19th century, when it extended its meaning to ‘a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings of others’. The first part, scape, is a shortening of escape, as the goat escapes death by sacrifice.

Definition of scapegoat in US English:

scapegoat

nounˈskeɪpˌɡoʊtˈskāpˌɡōt

1A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
代人受过者，替罪羊
Example sentencesExamples
- The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence.
- The obvious thing to do would be to find a scapegoat, so they blame it on the bugs.
- Leaders will deny, blame, seek scapegoats, and retreat to their offices.
- We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a scapegoat - they have made some mistakes.
- However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy scapegoats.
- When there is a problem, there always is a scapegoat to blame.
- But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on scapegoats.
- ‘The focus is on scapegoats and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
- Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a scapegoat to take the blame away from ourselves.
- When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a scapegoat to blame the problem on.
- Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame scapegoats for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system.
- A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular scapegoat for its emergence.
- Teenagers have always been an easy scapegoat to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
- When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and scapegoats to blame where our children are concerned?
- But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking scapegoats to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever.
- The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies.
- What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing scapegoats and hypothetical enemies.
- As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating scapegoats and lamenting mistakes.
- They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as scapegoats for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
- But the animal is the convenient scapegoat, and easily blamed.
Synonyms
whipping boy, victim, aunt sally
2(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
〈圣经〉替罪羊（《利未记》16）
Example sentencesExamples
- Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
- Both dogs and scapegoats will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.

verbˈskeɪpˌɡoʊtˈskāpˌɡōt

[with object]

Make a scapegoat of.
使成为…的替罪羊
few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated
it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor
Example sentencesExamples
- She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly scapegoated and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated.
- He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives scapegoat gays and lesbians.
- It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
- Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been scapegoated for the party's failure to make any political headway.
- The point of this letter is not to scapegoat doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
- Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to scapegoat anyone.
- He says that he feels he had been scapegoated by the press.
- Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to scapegoat others for Government failures?
- And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents.
- I'm sick of being scapegoated by people who don't know what they're talking about.
- For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to scapegoat one person or another.
- And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting scapegoated, and I absolutely stand by that.
- Asylum seekers should not be scapegoated for our longstanding social problems.
- One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were scapegoated during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence.
- Young Irish people are being scapegoated as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday.
- The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
- It is not a moral value to scapegoat undocumented immigrants.
- The question is, does it serve us to scapegoat people now?
- The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually scapegoated.
- Jesus never scapegoated people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from archaic scape ‘escape’ + goat.

单词	scapegoat
释义	Definition of scapegoat in English: scapegoat noun ˈskeɪpɡəʊtˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt 1A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency. 代人受过者，替罪羊 Example sentencesExamples Leaders will deny, blame, seek scapegoats, and retreat to their offices. Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a scapegoat to take the blame away from ourselves. When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a scapegoat to blame the problem on. The obvious thing to do would be to find a scapegoat, so they blame it on the bugs. As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating scapegoats and lamenting mistakes. ‘The focus is on scapegoats and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’ But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on scapegoats. A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular scapegoat for its emergence. But the animal is the convenient scapegoat, and easily blamed. However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy scapegoats. Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame scapegoats for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system. The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence. When there is a problem, there always is a scapegoat to blame. Teenagers have always been an easy scapegoat to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults. What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing scapegoats and hypothetical enemies. They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as scapegoats for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad. We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a scapegoat - they have made some mistakes. The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies. When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and scapegoats to blame where our children are concerned? But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking scapegoats to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever. Synonyms whipping boy, victim, Aunt Sally North American goat informal fall guy North American informal patsy 2(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). 〈圣经〉替罪羊（《利未记》16） Example sentencesExamples Both dogs and scapegoats will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located. Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located. verb ˈskeɪpɡəʊtˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt [with object] Make a scapegoat of. 使成为…的替罪羊 few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor Example sentencesExamples Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to scapegoat anyone. One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were scapegoated during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence. He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives scapegoat gays and lesbians. And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents. He says that he feels he had been scapegoated by the press. Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to scapegoat others for Government failures? For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to scapegoat one person or another. I'm sick of being scapegoated by people who don't know what they're talking about. Young Irish people are being scapegoated as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday. And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting scapegoated, and I absolutely stand by that. The question is, does it serve us to scapegoat people now? Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been scapegoated for the party's failure to make any political headway. It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death. She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly scapegoated and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated. The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually scapegoated. Jesus never scapegoated people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups. The point of this letter is not to scapegoat doctors (translation: I might be sick one day). It is not a moral value to scapegoat undocumented immigrants. The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election. Asylum seekers should not be scapegoated for our longstanding social problems. Origin Mid 16th century: from archaic scape 'escape' + goat. In the biblical Book of Leviticus God tells Moses that the Jewish people should take two goats and cast lots to determine their fate—the chief priest is to lay the sins of the people on one before driving it out into the wilderness, while the other is to be sacrificed. The animal driven away is the scapegoat. This was the only context in which the word appeared until the early 19th century, when it extended its meaning to ‘a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings of others’. The first part, scape, is a shortening of escape, as the goat escapes death by sacrifice. Definition of scapegoat in US English: scapegoat nounˈskeɪpˌɡoʊtˈskāpˌɡōt 1A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency. 代人受过者，替罪羊 Example sentencesExamples The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence. The obvious thing to do would be to find a scapegoat, so they blame it on the bugs. Leaders will deny, blame, seek scapegoats, and retreat to their offices. We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a scapegoat - they have made some mistakes. However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy scapegoats. When there is a problem, there always is a scapegoat to blame. But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on scapegoats. ‘The focus is on scapegoats and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’ Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a scapegoat to take the blame away from ourselves. When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a scapegoat to blame the problem on. Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame scapegoats for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system. A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular scapegoat for its emergence. Teenagers have always been an easy scapegoat to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults. When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and scapegoats to blame where our children are concerned? But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking scapegoats to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever. The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies. What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing scapegoats and hypothetical enemies. As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating scapegoats and lamenting mistakes. They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as scapegoats for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad. But the animal is the convenient scapegoat, and easily blamed. Synonyms whipping boy, victim, aunt sally 2(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). 〈圣经〉替罪羊（《利未记》16） Example sentencesExamples Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located. Both dogs and scapegoats will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located. verbˈskeɪpˌɡoʊtˈskāpˌɡōt [with object] Make a scapegoat of. 使成为…的替罪羊 few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor Example sentencesExamples She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly scapegoated and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated. He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives scapegoat gays and lesbians. It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death. Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been scapegoated for the party's failure to make any political headway. The point of this letter is not to scapegoat doctors (translation: I might be sick one day). Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to scapegoat anyone. He says that he feels he had been scapegoated by the press. Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to scapegoat others for Government failures? And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents. I'm sick of being scapegoated by people who don't know what they're talking about. For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to scapegoat one person or another. And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting scapegoated, and I absolutely stand by that. Asylum seekers should not be scapegoated for our longstanding social problems. One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were scapegoated during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence. Young Irish people are being scapegoated as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday. The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election. It is not a moral value to scapegoat undocumented immigrants. The question is, does it serve us to scapegoat people now? The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually scapegoated. Jesus never scapegoated people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups. Origin Mid 16th century: from archaic scape ‘escape’ + goat.
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