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• n  someone who is punished for the errors of others

• The rising political star commented tongue in cheek, "Any leader on a downward spiral needs a scapegoat."
• The entire team had played awfully but William, the goalkeeper, was an easy scapegoat to pick to cover the team's embarrassing defeat.
• In their embarrassment over the mutiny, some Frenchmen looked hard for some scapegoat who was not French.

• whipping boy

News & Articles

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• Teen who rescued victims after Philly buidling collapse talks about his experience
  In Philadelphia, the lawyer for the subcontractor charged in the deadly building collapse says his client is a scapegoat who merely followed orders.  The lawyer denies his client was high on Marijuana and Percocet while operating machinery, despite claims from prosecutors. During demolition last week, a wall collapsed, burying 19 people at an adjacent thrift store and killing six people. CBS 21 ...
  June 12, 2013 - WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg
• Lawyer: Subcontractor Is Scapegoat in Pa. Collapse
  Lawyer: Subcontractor is scapegoat, was just following orders before deadly Pa. wall collapse        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News
• Lawyer: Subcontractor Is Scapegoat in Pa. Collapse
  Lawyer: Subcontractor is scapegoat, was just following orders before deadly Pa. wall collapse        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in The Malaysian Insider
  They're an obvious attempt to distract people from what is truly taking place within Iran's borders,Obama said. "This tired strategy of using tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran. This is not about the United...
• Jeff Zucker in International Herald Tribune
  Zucker said while interviewed on a stage by BusinessWeek that while "everyone wants to find a scapegoat," to suggest that the business media or CNBC was responsible for the economic meltdown is "absurd."
• Joe Dumars in Los Angeles Times
  I'm not going to sit here and make Flip the scapegoat,president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said Tuesday. "Everybody is in play."