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culprit
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  • And if the culprit wasn't caught soon, he was looking at a lifetime back with the Dursleys.  (source)
  • He had a hunch that the culprit (or culprits) intended something more serious than juvenile pranks.  (source)
  • The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.  (source)
    culprit = someone responsible for a crime
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  • The smell of body odor hung over them like a stinky mist, and he just hoped he wasn't the worst culprit.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • Because if word of it gets out, the culprits will have their first victory.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for wrongdoing
  • Prudence had further news of the culprits.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • I will hunt out the culprit and bring him to you.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • Who are the culprits?  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • His face pulled down on the left side, as if a pulley had been attached to his lower teeth, and his left hand was only a mite bigger than Bailey's, but on the second mistake or on the third hesitation his big overgrown right hand would catch one of us behind the collar, and in the same moment would thrust the culprit toward the dull red heater, which throbbed like a devil's toothache.  (source)
    culprit = someone responsible for a wrongdoing
  • They are the real culprits.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • She sits down, obviously pleased that the culprits have been caught.†  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially criminals
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