culprits
Meaning of culprits
plural noun
- a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.
the car's front nearside door had been smashed in but the culprits had fled
late 17th century (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the written abbreviation cul. prist for Anglo-Norman French Culpable: prest d'averrer notre bille ‘(You are) guilty: (We are) ready to prove our indictment’; in later use influenced by Latin culpa ‘fault, blame’.
Information about culprits
- It is a name.
- The singular form of culprits is: culprit.
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Hyphenation of culprits
cul-prits
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- culprits is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
culprits synonyms
Meaning a person who commits an illegal act:
Meaning a person who behaves illegally or dishonestly; an offender:
Meaning a person who has committed a crime:
Meaning a person who commits a crime or some other wrong:
Meaning a person who breaks the law:
Meaning a person who has committed a felony:
Meaning a delinquent person:
Meaning an unprincipled person:
Meaning a person who transgresses against divine law by committing an immoral act or acts:
Meaning a villain or criminal in a book, film, etc:
Meaning a person who is dishonest or a criminal:
Meaning a person who has done something wrong or unlawful:
Words that rhyme with culprits
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