Both Uses
perpetrator
in
Babbitt
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- He coaxed her with large booming sounds, with affable smiles, like a popular preacher blessing an Easter congregation, like a humorous lecturer completing his stint of eloquence, like all perpetrators of masculine wiles.†
Chpt 9
- When Zenith's lone Conscientious Objector came home from prison and was righteously run out of town, the newspapers referred to the perpetrators as an "unidentified mob."†
Chpt 34 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetrator) someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)