English-Swedish translations for scapegoat

• syndabock en
  De använder alltså Turkiet som syndabock.They thus use Turkey as a scapegoat.
  Utvidgningen kan inte användas som syndabock.Expansion must not be used as a scapegoat.
  Europa får inte bli en syndabock!Europe must not be turned into a scapegoat!
• strykpojke en

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