All 3 Uses of
culprit
in
The Age of Innocence
- She's 'poor Ellen' certainly, because she had the bad luck to make a wretched marriage; but I don't see that that's a reason for hiding her head as if she were the culprit."†
Chpt 5
- If the van der Luydens want to quarrel with anybody, the real culprit is under their own roof.†
Chpt 10 *
- Literature and art were deeply respected in the Archer set, and Mrs. Archer was always at pains to tell her children how much more agreeable and cultivated society had been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of "The Culprit Fay."†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(culprit) someone responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially a criminal; or something that caused a problem