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someone responsible for a wrongdoing — especially a criminal; or something that caused a problem
- 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.p. 10.9
culprit = person responsible for wrongdoing
There are no more uses of "culprit" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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