17 Metaphors for culprit

The true culprit is liberalism, the unbelief of the age, which has let the devil loose in our house.

I have no doubt, from the description, that the culprits were French sailors.

The culprit, who violates and suffers the vengeance of the laws, is not the dupe of ignorance, but the slave of passion, the victim of habit or necessity.

The true culprit is liberalism, the unbelief of the age, which has let the devil loose in our house.

The real culprit is a theorist, a bookworm, who, in a tentative kind of way, has done a more than bold thing; but this boldness of his is of quite a peculiar and one-sided stamp; it is, after a fashion, like that of a man who hurls himself from the top of a mountain or church steeple.

The culprits of his Tartarus are not merely the legendary offenders against exacting deities: Hic quibus invisi fratres, dum vita manebat, Pulsatusve parens et fraus innexa clienti, Aut qui divitiis soli incubuere repertis Nec partem posuere suis, quae maxima turba est.

It now became evident that the culprit was a hardened sinner; so on the third Sunday, instead of repeating the unsatisfactory inquiry, the priest, after, as usual, eyeing the obdurate offender, said, in a tone of pious sorrow, "Mike Regan, Mike Regan, you treat me with contempt!"

But the Right was mistaken, the culprit of Limoges was, not Gaston Dussoubs, but

If so, then must a traitor of necessity go unpunished, since the nature of the crime requires that the culprit be your countryman.

The culprit was Lawrence Jerome.

The real culprit was the European anarchy.

The real culprit was Agostino di Antonio di Duccio, or Guccio, who had succeeded with another colossal statue for the Duomo.

The real culprits then, according to all accounts, were the officials who deliberately misled the Court.

When it was objected that to rule or to live at the expense of ignorance has another and somewhat ugly name and is punished by law when the culprit is a single person, he would justify his position by referring to other colonies.

"What an unreasonable culprit!" To which she added, quite audibly, though behind the temporary shelter of her fan: "Who is this beau garçon whom you seem to have brought with you?" I turned aside, affecting not to hear the question; but could not help listening, nevertheless.

The culprit was a staunch Seceder, and owned a small farm.

Once more the real culprit was not Germany nor any other Power.

17 Metaphors for  culprit