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culprit
[ kuhl-prit ]
noun
- a person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault.
- a person arraigned for an offense.
culprit
/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- law a person awaiting trial, esp one who has pleaded not guilty
- the person responsible for a particular offence, misdeed, etc
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of culprit1
Example Sentences
The likely culprit, according to the scientists, was a fleet of more than 200 fishing ships that have in recent years targeted these remote waters.
We were all taken aback but I didn't understand that I was apparently the culprit.
It begs the question why employees are being subject to polygraph exams,which are notoriously unreliable and inadmissible in court, if DHS has already identified the culprits.
Our gas boilers are the main culprit; lots of individual devices inefficiently burning fossil fuels to create the heat.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office launched the probe to find the culprits behind the tagging of a temple with “political messages,” authorities said in a news release.
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