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View definitions for perpetrator

perpetrator

noun as in murderer

noun as in wrongdoer

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They affirmed that Trump suffers from "a congenital sense of entitlement," whose personality is like that of "street toughs, bullies, abusive husbands and hate-crime perpetrators."

From Salon

The OPCW's Investigation and Identification Team documented multiple uses of chemical weapons during the war, identifying the Syrian military as the perpetrator of five cases of chemical weapons use in 2017 and 2018.

From BBC

Law enforcement agencies should also take perpetrators to task, he adds.

From BBC

Fires were lit outside the centre and when the perpetrators departed, patients' medical records were left strewn on the floor.

From BBC

False online rumours spread online hours after the attack that the perpetrator had been an asylum seeker and potentially an Islamist extremist, and a violent protest took place close to the scene the following day.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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