scapegoat
/ˈskeɪpgəʊt/ noun [C]Definition
› someone who is blamed for a bad situation, although they have not caused it: He was made a scapegoat for the disaster.
(Definition of scapegoat noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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