Crossword-Solution: SCAPEGOAT 9 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

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SCAPEGOAT anagram GOATSCAPE

We have 54 clues for the answer “SCAPEGOAT”

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Person taking blame for others 1 answer
Blame unjustly 1 answer
Accused critter with a beard? 1 answer
Current best-seller (with "The"). 1 answer
GOAT carrying sins of people and allowed to escape 1 answer
ONE bearing blame that should fall upon another 1 answer
On whose head lies the sins of others. 1 answer
One getting the blame 1 answer
One who seems responsible but isn't 1 answer
Person or group made to bear the blame for faults of others 1 answer
Person wrongly blamed 1 answer
*Person who's usually blamed (3 to 6) 1 answer
Relative of a fall guy. 1 answer
Someone to blame 1 answer
Target for insults and criticism 1 answer
person made to bear the blame for others 1 answer
someone who is punished for the errors of others 1 answer
Shakespeare's Shylock, for one 2 answers
Blame-bearer 2 answers
TARGET of blame 2 answers
Whipping boy? 3 answers
Victim of a sort 3 answers
Sufferer. 4 answers
PERSON to blame 4 answers
PERSON bearing blame that should fall upon another 5 answers
meal ticket 9 answers
BLAME BEARER 11 answers
One left holding the bag? 11 answers
ACCUSED NEED 11 answers
BLAME TAKER 11 answers
AUNT Sally 14 answers
mannequin 17 answers
Patsy 21 answers
object of ridicule 24 answers
martyr 28 answers
Laughing stock? 30 answers
Prey 33 answers
Laughingstock 34 answers
"Fall" guy 34 answers
Sucker 35 answers
Pushover 35 answers
Pigeon 39 answers
CHUMP ___ 41 answers
Foolish person 43 answers
booby 49 answers
Sap 51 answers
Victim 52 answers
Butt 54 answers
Moron 55 answers
Zany 62 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
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.
The Online World Odd de Presno 1993
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.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
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.
Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1996
But the trouble was that those others had to be shielded at all costs, and Schwabing was made the scapegoat.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1996

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…
Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian
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…
Brian D. McLaren The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
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.
Robert Jackall Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 15 times in crossword archives (1952–2020).