culprit
IPA: kˈʌɫprɪt
noun
- The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
- (UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
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Examples of "culprit" in Sentences
- I suspect the codec is the culprit.
- The main culprits were caught yesterday.
- I was the culprit in restoring the material.
- The culprit was never conclusively determined.
- Illiteracy is the culprit of confusion on this.
- In the novel, Carmen is definitely the culprit.
- The culprit was the blueprint and the implementation.
- Conan deduced the culprit and the cause of the murder.
- The culprit's ridance was on the news throughout the day.
- I am guessing that the culprit is the Internet (and cable).
- It's one of the main culprits on the egregious article size.
- The main culprit is the famous Crow's Nest Pass. rate agreement which has kept grain freight rates at the same level since 1897.
- Crusades, war against Russia, Serbia and others are the effect, the culprit is the ideology of globalization which has adopted the worst of communism, NS and capitalism. hardtruth
- In all of these cases, whether the culprit is the energy industry, agribusiness, or climate change, the work of environmental advocates is calling attention to and pushing to resolve the problem.
- When 1100/11-87s and 870s won't feed a round from the magazine tube, the culprit is almost always a magazine plug that has been installed upside down (the small end should point down toward the trigger).
- Rather: It has been more than a year and half now since the string of deadly anthrax attacks in this country, and still no arrests, even though investigators believe they know who the culprit is and where he is.
- Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival but the main culprit is the return to full time day job for pension reasons!