scapegoating

English

Verb

scapegoating

1. present participle and gerund of scapegoat

Noun

scapegoating (plural scapegoatings)

1. The act of making somebody a scapegoat.
   • 1989, Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain, page 224:

     Nazi persecution of Jews, as with other scapegoatings, was focused, systematic and directly lethal. Other oppressions have been more long-term and uneven […]