Noun
One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Source: Webster's dictionarySurgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife, Underneath their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit Life. Emily Dickinson
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. Susan George
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn! Peter Ustinov
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all. Joseph Heller
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. Emanuel Ax