1) Accused critter with a beard 2) Blame unjustly 3) Blamed person 4) Butt 5) One getting the blame 6) Patsy 7) Person to blame 8) Victim 9) Whipping boy
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1) Butt 2) Fall guy 3) Patsy 4) Whipping boy
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Scapegoat derives from the common English translation of the Hebrew term azazel (Hebrew: עזאזל) which occurs in Leviticus 16:8 after the prefix la- (Hebrew לַ `for`). In ancient Greece a cripple or beggar or criminal (the pharmakos) was cast out of the community, either in response to a natural disaster (such as a plague, famine or an inv.....
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• (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. • (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
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a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles
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[Noun] A scapegoat gets the blame for something, even though it may not be their fault.
Example: James was made the scapegoat for the problem at work.
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(`goat for Azazel`), in the Old Testament ritual of Yom Kippur (Lev. 16:8–10), a goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the Jewish people. Some ... [7 related articles]
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In the Hebrew Bible (Leviticus 16), a goat loaded with the sins of the people and then sent out into the wilderness as a way of removing those sins. The goat was sent to Azazel, who is variously...
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A person who is wrongly blamed for the fault(s) of another.
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Scape'goat` noun [
Scape (for
escape ) +
goat .]
1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
Lev. xvi. 10. 2. Hence, a person or thing that is m...
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n] - someone punished for the errors of others
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A person or people blamed or punished for things done by others.
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whipping boy noun someone punished for the errors of others
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someone who is punished for the errors of others
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