If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault. I don't deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.

What does it mean when you scapegoat someone?

noun. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head.

How do you use scapegoat in a sentence?