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Fugitive vs Culprit - What's the difference?

fugitive | culprit |

As nouns the difference between fugitive and culprit

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while culprit is the person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.

As an adjective fugitive

is fleeing or running away.

fugitive

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
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  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain
  • culprit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
  • I tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit ; it should work now.
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  • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But the Dutch dominated only to waste numerous efforts, with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie the main culprits .}}

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