Both Uses
culprit
in
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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- So when it was the turn of the 104th to be frisked they bad to ease up a bit: Volkovoi told the guards to take the name of anyone who might be wearing extra garments—the culprits were to surrender them in person to personal property that evening with a written explanation of how and why they had hidden the garments.†
*culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially criminals
- Should he take cover behind the row in front of him and toss the bit of metal in the snow (it'd be noticed but they wouldn't know who the culprit was) or keep it on him?†
culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
Definitions:
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(1)
(culprit) someone responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially a criminal; or something that caused a problem
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely culprit can reference anything identified as the cause of a problem -- such as a defective part that broke a machine.