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culprit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | perpetrator |
| Type of | offender, wrongdoer |
Examples of culprit
culprit
It's different this time because the main culprit is lax underwriting standards.
From the businessweek.com
The biggest culprit was the chip operation, known as the microelectronics group.
From the businessweek.com
Structure is rarely the chief culprit behind poor decision making and execution.
From the forbes.com
They say the culprit is climate change in the form of increased air temperature.
From the newscientist.com
Printed texts are a culprit taken for granted except by those who must buy them.
From the courier-journal.com
After months of investigation, peppers from Mexico were found to be the culprit.
From the dispatch.com
Mickelson panned the cluster of photographers, trying to figure out the culprit.
From the thenewstribune.com
In 1973, an oil crisis was the culprit, squeezing U.S. businesses and consumers.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The culprit, in addition to the foul fish, appeared to have been my vagus nerve.
From the abcnews.go.com
- Perpetrator: someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
- A culprit, under English law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an offence. In origin the word is a combination of two Anglo-French legal words, culpable: guilty, and prit or prest: Old French: ready. ...
- The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime
- C.A.'s general-purpose report generator.
- Crim. law. When a prisoner is arraigned, and he pleads not guilty, in the English practice, the clerk, who arraigns him on behalf of the crown, replies that the prisoner is guilty, and that he is ready to prove the accusation; this is done by two monosyllables, cul. prit. ...
- An individual who has been formally charged with a criminal offense but who has not yet been tried and convicted.
- A wrongdoer; somebody who is responsible for or guilty of an offense or misdeed, a criminal
- A guilty person (Nov/Dec. 2010)
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