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Example sentences for: scapegoat

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If Finkelstein were to apply his logic to Lee Atwater's Willie Horton strategy, he'd have to write, "Not race but crime served as the prime scapegoat of George Bush's 1988 campaign."
Two terms that surfaced during Mr. Liman's questioning were fall guy and scapegoat , both terms introduced by him and not Col.
' A second definition reveals it to be synonymous with scapegoat . But fall guy is a less formal term and suggests ignorance.
Scapegoat , on the other hand, means `one who bears the blame for others'; it is a political word that carries with it a certain nobility and martyrdom that fall guy doesn't imply.
Whatever happened to the military's traditional heartless approach of finding a scapegoat?