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Folk devil

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  1. 1
    A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic. idiomatic

    "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."

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