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culprit English

Meaning culprit meaning

What does culprit mean?

culprit

(= perpetrator) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

Synonyms culprit synonyms

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Simple sentences

I am sure that the culprit is Tom.
I'm sure the culprit is Tom.
I'm sure that the culprit is Tom.

Movie subtitles

We're dealing with a tiny fraction of the human face to identify our culprit.
Marcasse swore to punish with his own hands the chief culprit: the elusive Tristan de Mauprat who hid among the ruins of his ancient fortress.
He's the culprit!
Something must have disturbed the culprit.
And how about we publically announce that the culprit will be forgiven, if he compesates the damage.
They can't find the culprit, he always leaves fake clues.
But a culprit is a mislead person.
As soon as they catch the culprit, the entire village will see him on his way.
Who could be the culprit who has such powers?
We'll lay the culprit by the heels soon enough.
But he's the culprit, I swear to you.
But if he's not the culprit.
We'll make him the culprit.
Bannai shot the culprit anyway, so I'll let you off with the guard house.
That's the culprit.
So you're the culprit.
I'm the culprit, boys.
You know the real culprit and tried to cover him.
And however much I investigate, I'll never find the culprit.
If the culprit does not identify himself, I will find out who he is.
We got the plank, the culprit, and the verdict.
Baron Gruda has made the defacing of public property. an offense punishable by death. both for the culprit and the accomplices.
I hope that the culprit will be found out before long.
The culprit's punishment is included in the ticket price.
I assume the culprit was arrested.
We'll prove he's the culprit.
Bannai shot the culprit but it's the guard house for you!
It is easy to go to jail but it costs you dearly to get out. There are many innocent who are poor. A poor innocent is a culprit.
I think I know the real culprit.
I wanted to meet the culprit who started this whole business.
Ah, then he's the chief culprit anyhow?
No, Mohrungen, continue! If it was tampered with then I must find the culprit.
At 18:00, bring me the culprit no matter if sabotage or negligence or sign this statement. resigning from your department.
And if I present you the culprit now?
The end. The culprit's punishment is included in the ticket price.
Make the culprit do penance to our sacred Narayama!
Make the culprit do penance!
I'll denounce the real culprit.
Here comes the culprit.
Until we knew the culprit, the information was no good.
They gave us two weeks to arrest the culprit.

News and current affairs

But the Bush administration is not the sole culprit for the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
The second-biggest culprit is methane.
The culprit?
A more likely culprit for the steep price decline is a combination of the shale-energy revolution in the US and the sharp slowdown in Chinese growth.
That, not China's exchange rate policy, is the culprit.
In that case, Europe was as much the culprit as America.
MUNICH - The euro's current weakness has one culprit: Greece.
Suitable control systems should be put in place to stop and correct any failure to meet the established rules by any means necessary, including suspension of membership or exclusion of culprit countries.
And, when the evidence is confronted, it points to speculation as a culprit.
Sometimes the culprit is lousy internal controls in financial firms that over-reward subordinates for taking risk.
Sometimes fraud consists in plagiarism: the culprit takes credit for someone else's work.
However, especially in the most competitive scientific fields, fraud often takes the form of forgery: the culprit fabricates data.
Moreover, problematic elections constitute a specific challenge for the West, which is simultaneously the bearer of a universal democratic message and the culprit of an imperialist past that undermines that message's persuasiveness and utility.
The US, where consumers - assisted by reckless lending to non-creditworthy households - had borrowed heavily to buy houses and cars, was the main culprit.
However discomfiting a possibility, the real culprit might be Indian culture and tradition itself.
Weak demand - especially the post-crisis collapse in consumer spending growth - is a far more likely culprit than China in explaining the recent hiring shortfall.
Weak aggregate demand is the primary culprit for subdued GDP and employment growth.
Problems could arise only because of unanticipated shocks, temporary local political difficulties, and - the favorite culprit - irrational markets.
They see the US as simultaneously the champion of democracy in the region and as the culprit in their economic woes because of its insistence on the sanctity of capital.
It was not monetary policy's fault, argued both former Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke; if anything, they insisted, a lack of regulatory oversight was the culprit.
The real culprit is the euro.
That guilt is real, argues Deepak Lal, but there is another culprit: American economic policy toward Japan.
This leads to an important conclusion: Ukraine is not the culprit but the victim, and it should be treated accordingly.
Many central bankers portray former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (who served from August 1987 until January 2006) as the culprit, saying that he projected an image of central-bank omnipotence that is not warranted in theory or practice.

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