Plural of scapegoat

regular plural

The plural of scapegoat is scapegoats.

Forms of scapegoat

This kind of drive-by scapegoating does not seem conducive to genuine reflection (and it definitely doesn't encourage reflection in the individuals it scapegoats).2012 April 11, L. V. Anderson, “Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games”, in Slate, archived from the original…. From the entry drive-by
The ferals are the scapegoats for the drug problems here, and are highly visible since many of them have nowhere to live.1995, Bill Metcalf, From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Cooperative Lifestyles in Australia, page 82. From the entry feral
In other cases, particularly in Eastern European countries, old traditional antisemitic, racist and antiziganist prejudices were explicitly functionalized in order to construct scapegoats wherever and whenever needed.2015, Ruth Wodak, The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean, →ISBN. From the entry antiziganist

noun 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.
noun Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
verb To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

What is the plural of scapegoat?: The plural of scapegoat is scapegoats.
Is scapegoat countable?: Scapegoat is a countable noun.

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