All culprit synonyms

noun culprit

• miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
• offender — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
• felon — an acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of a finger or toe, usually near the nail: a form of whitlow.
• wrongdoer — a person who does wrong, especially a sinner or transgressor.
• criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
• malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
• delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
• rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
• convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• jailbird — a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.
• transgressor — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
• yardbird — a convict or prisoner.
• sinner — a person who sins; transgressor.
• perpetrator — a person who perpetrates, or commits, an illegal, criminal, or evil act: The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be found and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
• lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.