English-Latvian translations for scapegoat

• grēkāzis
  Tā ir klasiska situācija, kad tiek meklēts grēkāzis. This is the classic scapegoat phenomenon.
  Runājot par kvotu sistēmu, jāsaka, ka tā šķiet galvenais grēkāzis visā šajā situācijā, kurā atrodamies. As regards the quota system; it seems to be the scapegoat of this whole situation in which we find ourselves.
  Mūsu acīs Eiropa nav atsevišķu valstu problēmu grēkāzis, tā nav arī žandarms, kam jāuzmana Itālijas premjerministrs. For us, Europe is not the scapegoat for all national problems, nor is it the gendarme having to keep watch over the Prime Minister of Italy.

Definition of scapegoat

• In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed
• Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
• To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
• To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim

Examples

• He is making me a scapegoat.

Related words

• scape
• escape
• landscape
• moonscape
• townscape
• cityscape
• seascape
• streetscape
• escapee