Able to be made into a scapegoat.

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.

(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scapegoat

plural of scapegoat

A person who makes a scapegoat of another person (punishes someone for another's wrongdoing)

The practice of holding somebody accountable as a scapegoat.

plural of scapegoater

plural of scapegoatism

Resembling or characteristic of a scapegoat.