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Definition
someone who has does something wrong — usually something illegal
- 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."Chapter 34 (18% in)
- 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.Chapter 9 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "perpetrator" in Babbitt.
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