The meaning of Culprit

Culprit – definition

noun
A person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.
Usage examples:
The car's front nearside door had been smashed in but the culprits had fled
Synonims:
Guilty party Offender Wrongdoer Person responsible Criminal Malefactor Lawbreaker Felon Delinquent Reprobate Evil-doer Transgressor Sinner Baddie Bad guy Wrong 'un Crook Crim Malfeasant Misfe

noun
Someone who has committed a crime or done something wrong
Usage examples:
Two eyewitnesses identified her as the culprit., the culprit was identified as a microorganism that…

Culprit translation into English

Culprit: translate from English into Chinese

罪魁祸首

Culprit: translate from English into Dutch

Dader, Schuldige, Beschuldigde

Culprit: translate from English into French

Coupable, Criminel

Culprit: translate from English into German

Schuldiger, Täter, Schuldige, Übeltäter, Missetäter

Culprit: translate from English into Hindi

अपराधी, दोषी, मुजरिम, अभियुक्त

Culprit: translate from English into Italian

Colpevole

Culprit: translate from English into Korean

범죄자, 형사피고인

Culprit: translate from English into Russian

Преступник, Виновник, Виновный, Обвиняемый

Culprit: translate from English into Spanish

Culpable, Reo, Delincuente, Culpado

Word origin

late 17th century (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the writte

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Culprit – similar words

culprits

noun
A person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.
Usage examples:
The car's front nearside door had been smashed in but the culprits had fled

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Culprit synonims

baddie

noun
A villain or criminal in a book, film, etc.
Usage examples:
Sirius is the new baddie in this film, and having engineered the death of harry's parents, he now w…

noun
A bad person in a film, book, etc.
Usage examples:
In the old cowboy movies, the baddies always get beaten in the end.

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crim

noun
A criminal.
Usage examples:
The thieves will be hardened crims who know the system inside out

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criminal

noun
A person who has committed a crime.
Usage examples:
These men are dangerous criminals

adjective
Relating to crime.
Usage examples:
They are charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage

adjective
Involving or having the character of a crime
Usage examples:
She may face criminal charges for lying to a grand jury., he had an extensive criminal record (= an…

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crook

noun
The hooked staff of a shepherd.
Usage examples:
Seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs

verb
Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).
Usage examples:
He crooked a finger for the waitress

adjective
Bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
Usage examples:
It was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s

All meanings and translations of Crook

delinquent

adjective
(typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime.
Usage examples:
Delinquent teenagers

noun
A delinquent person.
Usage examples:
Juvenile delinquents

adjective
Late in paying money owed
Usage examples:
She was delinquent in paying her taxes.

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felon

noun
A person who has committed a felony.
Usage examples:
Such force was justifiable against 'felons', and a thief was a felon if he had two previous convict…

adjective
Cruel; wicked.
Usage examples:
The felon undermining hand of dark corruption

noun
Archaic term for whitlow.

All meanings and translations of Felon

lawbreaker

noun
A person who breaks the law.
Usage examples:
They're being criminalized and treated as lawbreakers.

noun
A person who does not obey the law, esp. intentionally and often

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malefactor

noun
A person who commits a crime or some other wrong.
Usage examples:
Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed new york to a tipping point, deterring some potentia…

noun
A person who does bad or illegal things

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offender

noun
A person who commits an illegal act.
Usage examples:
An institution for young offenders

All meanings and translations of Offender

reprobate

noun
An unprincipled person.
Usage examples:
He had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than a spirit of corruption

adjective
Unprincipled.
Usage examples:
Reprobate behaviour

verb
Express or feel disapproval of.
Usage examples:
His neighbours reprobated his method of proceeding

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sinner

noun
A person who transgresses against divine law by committing an immoral act or acts.
Usage examples:
God forgives repentant sinners

noun
A person who commits sins

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transgressor

noun
A person who breaks a law or moral rule
Usage examples:
The system seems to be designed to punish the transgressor rather than help his victim., if he did …

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wrongdoer

noun
A person who behaves illegally or dishonestly; an offender.
Usage examples:
They need to punish wrongdoers

noun
A person who does something bad or illegal

All meanings and translations of Wrongdoer

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