Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #1290 of 1319

culprit (n.)

the guilty person

Examples

  • Find the culprit.

Key rules

  • A culprit is the person responsible for a wrong or crime
  • Find the culprit, the culprit confessed
  • Culprit is countable

Common mistakes

  • The culprits was arrested → The culprit was arrested
💡 Tip: Crime // Stories // Mysteries
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