Crossword-Solution: SCAPEGOAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scapegoat | n. | A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. |
| Scapegoat | n. | Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCAPEGOAT | anagram | GOATSCAPE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SCAPEGOAT (5)
Adolf Hitler exploited this need for a political scapegoat and turned it into a national, anti-Semitic campaign.
This person must keep the show running by serving as a benevolent tyrant, sheriff, judge, mediator, general scapegoat, and by playing a role in setting the general policy and atmosphere of the meeting.
Often, the whole colony were playing at blindman's buff, magistrates and all, with their eyes bandaged, except a single scapegoat, whom the blinded sinners pursued by the tinkling of the bells at his garments.
Why then should Yuan Shih-kai have been made the scapegoat of the court and the officials, and branded as a murderer in the face of the whole world? That may be another plot.
But the trouble was that those others had to be shielded at all costs, and Schwabing was made the scapegoat.
Quotes with SCAPEGOAT (3)
I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume h…
If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases... Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no conc…
The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1952–2020).