Scapegoat is valid Scrabble Word

Is scapegoat a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is scapegoat valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for SCAPEGOAT in dictionary:

VERB:

to make a scapegoat of
make a scapegoat of

NOUN:

a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
person made to bear the blame for others
A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
someone who is punished for the errors of others

Words related to SCAPEGOAT

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Words that contain SCAPEGOAT

scapegoats15 scapegoated17 scapegoating18 scapegoatism19 scapegoatings19 scapegoatisms20

How to use SCAPEGOAT in a sentence

But you have turned away from Jesus as a scapegoat.
Her school-mates had found her their most daring leader in mischief, the least reluctant scapegoat when mischief was to be atoned.
And let him that carried forth the scapegoat, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come into the host again.
Guerin alone, advocate-general in 1545, having no support at court, was condemned to death, and was scape-goat for all the rest.
They may treat their own minister as they please, but they shall not, without exposure, presume to judge of my conduct and make me the scapegoat for their sins.
As the scapegoat to our economic and industrial sinning, or to the plan of things, if you will, we should give him credit.
If Davis had succeeded in getting out of the country, it is probable that the South, or at least a large portion of the South, would have used him as a kind of a scapegoat.
In that case, Oubacha professed himself willing to become the scapegoat for the general transgression.
He is as shrewd as he is unscrupulous, and he knows well how to pile the sins of the congregation on the back of the poor scapegoat.
Papal taxation, added to the burden of national taxation, induced discontent that found a ready scapegoat in the justiciar.

Meanwhile a centurion, named Crispinus, was offered as a scape-goat.
His name was derided in the popular ballads, and he came to be looked upon as the scapegoat of the avarice and licentiousness of the church in that irreligious mediaeval age.
Moreover, it gives her a scapegoat against whom it is easy to make up a case.
If Agrippina lived, it was he who ran the risk of becoming the scapegoat for all this bloody and horrible adventure.
Even the wiser ones were spared only by having their offenses visited upon a scapegoat.
The Young Turks had now no scapegoat, and were in a perilous position with foes within and without.
In a word, he was devoted as the scape-goat of the ministry, to whose supine negligence, ignorance, and misconduct, the loss of that important fortress was undoubtedly owing.
He, it appears, is to be the scapegoat of the Bourget affair.
This is the consequence of the scapegoat system which has so long prevailed in France.
The trial of Kidd proved a scandal, for someone had to suffer as scapegoat for the aristocratic company privateers, and the lot fell to the luckless Kidd.
At these times his dependents in general would go a good deal out of their way to avoid him, and as Anton never did this, he was not unfrequently their scapegoat.
A scapegoat was necessary, and with a prison record behind me I had about as much show as a rat in a trap.
It is, therefore, altogether unjust to make Rabelais the scapegoat, to charge him alone with the sins of everybody else.
Poor Gage is to be scapegoat, not for this, but for what was a reason against employing him, incapacity.
The mirror is ever a scapegoat, yet its truths cannot be contested.
There was a moment when Banks, weak though he was, was near to victory, but he failed in the end in an impossible task and was made scapegoat for the blunders of others.
And the old basket-maker, having no friends, was a good scape-goat.
He consciously gave himself up as a scapegoat, that the security of human sanity should be safeguarded against a recurrence of this enormity.
A scheme of partial toleration was mooted in 1667, and Rothes was removed from his practical dictatorship, while Turner was made the scapegoat of Rothes, Sharp, and Dalziel.
An ambitious man in Paris is well off indeed if he has a willing scapegoat at hand.

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