One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.

A culprit, properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an offence. In origin the word is a combination of two Anglo-French legal words, culpable, guilty, and prit or prist, i.e. prest, Old French for pret, ready.

someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

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