CULPRIT Synonyms
There are 12 hypernyms of the word culprit. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for CULPRIT
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perpetrator | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | ||||||||
assailant | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who attacks | ||||||||
criminal | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime adjective satellite • bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure • guilty of crime or serious offense • involving or being or having the nature of a crime | ||||||||
delinquent | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • a young offender adjective satellite • guilty of a misdeed • failing in what duty requires • past due; not paid at the scheduled time | ||||||||
evildoer | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who sins (without repenting) | ||||||||
felon | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime • a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | ||||||||
lawbreaker | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who violates the law | ||||||||
malefactor | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | ||||||||
miscreant | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person without moral scruples | ||||||||
offender | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who transgresses moral or civil law | ||||||||
robber | nounn | |||||||
noun • a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence | ||||||||
ruffian | nounn | |||||||
noun • a cruel and brutal fellow | ||||||||
thief | nounn | |||||||
noun • a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | ||||||||
trespasser | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | ||||||||
wrongdoer | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who transgresses moral or civil law |