folk devil
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folk devil
noun folk devils
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A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.
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.
Similar: scapegoat
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