(p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
(p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
(2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
(3) In the end, the culprit is Burma because it is Burma where there is an issue,” Abbott said.
(4) But no one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
(5) The mean age was 50 years, male patients were more frequent, the predominant area of infarct was anterior wall and more frequently the "culprit" coronary was the left anterior descendent.
(6) Since DES has been proven a culprit in offspring malformations, the burden of proof that oral contraceptives in general do not provoke similar offspring changes is on the health community.
(7) Previously the culprit had pressed her face into the ground, so that she aspirated particles of soil.
(8) In 3 cases with single vessel disease of the LAD, inferior wall of the basis showed reduced uptake of BMIPP despite the location of the culprit lesion.
(9) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(10) "Not just because it's wrong to expect officers to endure profanities, but it's also because of the experience of the culprits.
(11) The culprits can be easily identified in a dysfunctional Greece as well as among the dogmatists dominating the country's eurozone creditors.
(12) Ischemic electrocardiographic changes were more sensitive in predicting LV dysfunction with culprit lesion location in the left anterior descending or right coronary artery.
(13) Give it back.” A major culprit is de-industrialisation.
(14) Many entertainment trades have blamed the casting of Michael Fassbender in the titular role as the main culprit in the film’s failure to cross over.
(15) The origin of the hackers is still unknown, although North Korea remains a possible culprit despite denying it was behind the sophisticated attack that would have challenged even government cyber-defences.
(16) She puts this down to the common culprits: stress, depression and the mojo-sapping anxieties of the age of austerity.
(17) Sweet suspects another culprit in the gendered, highly sexist toy market is the male dominance at the top of toy and advertising companies, and in Pink and Blue, Paoletti suggests another intriguing idea: that the rise of ultrasounds during pregnancy has contributed to the triumph of gendered colour codes.
(18) "Culprit" parathyroid glands are those typically enlarged and histologically abnormal glands that are credited with causing PHP in a given patient.
(19) But the culprit cannot have sought simply to damage a wall or cause death and injury.
(20) When snipers killed more than 50 protesters and wounded 1,000 on the Friday of Dignity , it was the young who arrested the culprits; not one was attacked or injured, despite the anger and the blood that had flowed in the streets.
Sinner
Definition:
(n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
(v. i.) To act as a sinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
(2) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(3) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(4) It was kinder and gentler than what I had been getting in my church up to that point with people telling me it was an evil spirit and I was an unrepentant sinner.
(5) It even featured one academic, Taj Hargey from Oxford, referring to Shias as sinners.
(6) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
(7) Robert Wringhim In James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner , a satire on Calvinism, Robert Wringhim's religiously dogmatic guardian convinces him that he is one of "the Elect" – those pre-selected by God for salvation.
(8) Mr Clinton declared himself a sinner with "a broken spirit" as a result of his liaison with Ms Lewinsky, to whom he issued a public apology for the first time.
(9) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
(10) Reforms made under the Gillard government still allow religious organisations – including many schools and some of the largest employers in the country – to discriminate against those it deems sinners.
(11) If in the Bible, sinners "strain out the gnat and swallow the camel", in Greece the sinful powers that be strain out pensions and swallow lists – in order, of course, to make them disappear.
(12) We're all just a bunch of sinners crashing around in the darkness (5) .
(13) The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot "sinners", their concerts a "boorish, arrogant and aggressive" challenge to Christians.
(14) Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
(15) That a homosexual -- man or woman -- is neither a sinner nor a sick person is the thesis of this paper by an authority on sexual deviation.
(16) When the game basically came down to one play, where the Ravens had to make a stop on 4th and goal and the 49ers had to convert a touchdown it almost didn't matter whether the younger brother or the older brother would prevail, which quarterback would later smile to the camera and say he was going to Disney World or whether or not Ray Lewis, whether you thought him saint or sinner, would end his career on a win or a loss.
(17) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(18) We are all sinners ... the Bible phrase I use most is ‘you don’t pick out the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye when there is a plank in your own’.” In that formulation both sawdust and plank are sins – it’s just not a Christian’s business to go around dressing people down for their faults.
(19) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(20) These animals were not impossible symbols of righteousness, but sinners, like ourselves.