Definition
A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.
In Context
- "It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, "Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil."
- ""Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on a folk devil to attribute all evil.""
- "There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil."
Also Said As
- scapegoat