Words similar to scapegoat

Example sentences for: scapegoat

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Hardened and bitter, in search of a scapegoat, they occasionally lashed out at the weak."
Whatever happened to the military's traditional heartless approach of finding a scapegoat?
Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)
The article claims Schwalier did everything right, and that Cohen simply sought a scapegoat.
"This is the first time I've ever volunteered to come and be a scapegoat," he said.