1 a person who has done sth wrong or against the law:
The police quickly identified the real culprits.
2 a person or thing responsible for causing a problem:
The main culprit in the current crisis seems to be modern farming techniques.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for culprit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is culprit a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, culprit is tagged as noun.
Does culprit appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — culprit appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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