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Definition
someone who has does something wrong — usually something illegal
- In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.Adventure VIII — The Adventure of the Speckled Band (15% in)
- So perfect was the organisation of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators.Adventure V — The Five Orange Pips (78% in)
There are no more uses of "perpetrator" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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