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Definition of Culprit
1. Noun. Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing.
Definition of Culprit
1. n. One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
Definition of Culprit
1. Noun. The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Culprit
1. one that is guilty [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culprit
Literary usage of Culprit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"The culprit Fay arose out of a conversation in the summer of 1810, in which Drake,
De Kay, Cooper the novelist, and Halleck were speaking of the Scottish ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1854)
"culprit 11.—'I swore intending to swear, but not intending to bind myself, ...
culprit 1.3.—' 1 consider it a useless oath, and therefore I am under no ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE culprit FAY. [Composed in l8W.—The culprit Fay, and Other Poems. 1847.]
-J- The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright; Naught is seen in the vault ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE culprit FAY "My visual orbs are purged from film, and lo! Instead of Anster
s turnip-bearing vales I see old fairy land's miraculous show! ..."
5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"Still will you cloud the muse ? nor blush for shame To cast away renown, and hide
your head from fame? In "culprit Fay, etc.," 1836. ..."
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