Culprit vs Guilty - What's the difference?
culprit | guilty |
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 9
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark
, work=BBC Sport
Responsible for a dishonest act.
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(lb) Judged to have committed a crime.
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Having a sense of guilt.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
Blameworthy.
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(legal) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
(legal) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
One who is declared guilty of a crime.
* {{quote-book, 1997, , Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion
, passage=The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.}}
As nouns the difference between culprit and guilty
is that culprit is the person or thing at fault for a problem or crime while guilty is a plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.As an adjective guilty is
responsible for a dishonest act.culprit
English
Noun
(en noun)- I tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit ; it should work now.
citation, page= , passage=But the Dutch dominated only to waste numerous efforts, with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie the main culprits .}}
Synonyms
* See alsoguilty
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal)Antonyms
* not guilty * innocentNoun
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