Definition for Scapegoat:

• Among the anc. Jews, a goat on which the high priest solemnly laid the sins of the people, and which was afterwards driven into the wilderness; any person on whom the faults of another may be fixed.

Synonyms for Scapegoat:

• n.

  •
  • deride,
  • reprimand,
  • denigrate,
  • remonstrate,
  • reproach,
  • find fault with,
  • criticize,
  • put down,
  • rebuke.
  •
  • have someone to thank (for something),
  • the guilty party,
  • praise.
  •butt (noun)
  • butt.
  •easy mark (noun)
  • jays,
  • easy pickings,
  • jay.
  •fall guy (noun)
  • sitting duck,
  • pigeons,
  • whipping boy,
  • schmuck,
  • lamb to the slaughter,
  • prize sap,
  • pigeon,
  • easy touch,
  • trusting soul,
  • can-carrier.
  •hostage (noun)
  • earnests,
  • sacrificial lamb.
  •person (noun)
  • scapegoat.
  •person who takes blame for (noun)
  • fool,
  • mark,
  • gull,
  • dupe,
  • sucker,
  • another's action boob,
  • chump,
  • stooge,
  • sacrifice,
  • sap.
  •target (noun)
  • by word,
  • by words.
  •victim (noun)
  • in nocent,
  • under dogs,
  • babe woods,
  • in-nocent,
  • under dog,
  • injured parties,
  • sitting targets,
  • easy makes,
  • under-dogs,
  • hunteds,
  • under-dog.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fair game.
  •
  • goat,
  • dead duck,
  • patsy,
  • punching bag.
  •outcast
  • pariah.

Paraphrases for Scapegoat:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Scapegoating.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    emissary, patsy, outfall, messenger.

Scapegoat Sentence Examples:

• It was only when he was driven to extremity in explaining the causes of his defeat, that his after - wit suggested Sedgwick as an available scapegoat.

• Gard had sufficed as explanation and scapegoat for Tom's death, and as vent for their feelings.

Homophones for Scapegoat:

• suffocate, spike out, sebaceous cyst, spacesuit, subset, subjugated, speech day, sophist, speech act, spaced, ship biscuit, suspected, sphecidae, spicate, subjugate, sea biscuit, subject, sex object, spigot, subacute, subacid, spectate, suspect, shipside, space cadet, swaybacked, sheepcote, Sabicu Wood, Sapphic Ode, spaced-out, spiked, subsidy, specked, sphecoidea, scoop shot, sheepshead, spiccato, spike heath, speciate, supposed, spaghetti, Sebacic Acid, substitute, shivaist, sheep ked, subside, sphecoid, subsist, scabicide.

Hyponym for Scapegoat:

• n.

  • person
    victim.