Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One charged with an offense or crime.
- noun One guilty of a fault or crime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person arraigned for a crime or offense.
- noun A criminal; a malefactor; an offender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
- noun One guilty of a fault; a criminal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
person orthing atfault for aproblem orcrime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival but the main culprit is the return to full time day job for pension reasons!
Archive 2008-04-01 MadeleineS 2008
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Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival but the main culprit is the return to full time day job for pension reasons!
Hello again! MadeleineS 2008
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The main culprit is the famous Crow's Nest Pass. rate agreement which has kept grain freight rates at the same level since 1897.
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Rather: It has been more than a year and half now since the string of deadly anthrax attacks in this country, and still no arrests, even though investigators believe they know who the culprit is and where he is.
The Wrong Man 2010
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In all of these cases, whether the culprit is the energy industry, agribusiness, or climate change, the work of environmental advocates is calling attention to and pushing to resolve the problem.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: When Will Our Water Be Clean? The Media Consortium 2010
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Rather: It has been more than a year and half now since the string of deadly anthrax attacks in this country, and still no arrests, even though investigators believe they know who the culprit is and where he is.
The Wrong Man 2010
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In all of these cases, whether the culprit is the energy industry, agribusiness, or climate change, the work of environmental advocates is calling attention to and pushing to resolve the problem.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: When Will Our Water Be Clean? The Media Consortium 2010
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I am guessing that the culprit is the Internet (and cable).
Matthew Yglesias » The George Will Scandal and the Decline of Great American Newspapers 2009
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Crusades, war against Russia, Serbia and others are the effect, the culprit is the ideology of globalization which has adopted the worst of communism, NS and capitalism. hardtruth
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When 1100/11-87s and 870s won't feed a round from the magazine tube, the culprit is almost always a magazine plug that has been installed upside down (the small end should point down toward the trigger).
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