Culprit for vs Culprit of

Both 'culprit for' and 'culprit of' are commonly used phrases in English, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Culprit for' is used when assigning blame or responsibility for a specific action or event, while 'culprit of' is used to describe the person or thing responsible for a particular wrongdoing or crime.

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Culprit for

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'culprit for' when assigning blame or responsibility for a specific action or event.

Examples:

He was the culprit for the theft at the store.
She was the culprit for the delay in the project.

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This is not that common, but I have come across a few people where the culprit for battery drain was just endless notifications coming in while their iPhone was locked was causing the display to switch on constantly.
On the day preceding Ash Wednesday (Shrove Tuesday), carnival events end with the burning of the "Pust" - an effigy made of straw, a the traditional culprit for all the last year\'s troubles.
This is the main culprit for the traffic problem.
PHILIPPINES Seven years on and still no culprit for Fr.
Overfishing is the main culprit for the lack of fish in our seas.
So the real culprit for the destruction of New Orleans wasn't just a big hurricane but greed dressed up as progress.
No responsibility, moreover, can be culprit for eventual manipulations of the site or of the data contained in it made by third people.
However, the last known case of LBRF in the US was recorded in 1871, making it a pretty unlikely culprit for feverish symptoms.
The high price is the main culprit for low demand.
Dad even made Ip Man the culprit for your crime
The use of nitrogen fertilisers of both synthetic and organic origin is the main culprit for emissions of nitrous oxide.
It should be remembered that carbon dioxide is the main culprit for the greenhouse effect, i.e. the increase of the earth's temperature.
The main culprit for this is cancer. There are throat cancers that will results in the inability or or restrictions in swallowing.
I want the culprit for this delay and I want him fired.
In this regard, Mr Juncker, having worked so hard to avoid such a deplorable outcome, found the right words to denounce the main culprit for this fiasco.
After All, How can be the culprit for public order? The Offender - those who rebelled against the legislator, but not the one who paid the injury his submissive slave.
Definitely, the financial sector is the major culprit for the debt crisis, just as it is the true target of the bailouts coordinated by international financial institutions and it continues to make profits thanks to its intermediation in all the refinancing deals.
I can't just sit here and wait for someone else to find the real culprit for me!
Poisoning by pesticides and rodenticides is one of the most common household dangers to your pet. In this case, zinc phosphide poisoning will be explored as a potential culprit for your pet's health condition.
He was the main culprit for the economic disasters of the "big leap forward" (around 30 million deaths from famine) and for the destructive struggle for power, deceptively called the "Cultural Revolution."

Alternatives:

responsible for
to blame for
guilty of
accountable for
at fault for

Culprit of

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'culprit of' to describe the person or thing responsible for a particular wrongdoing or crime.

Examples:

He was the culprit of the robbery.
She was the culprit of the accident.

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Head Culprit of Armed Robbery Escapes.
The main culprit of teenage obesity is bad nutrition, fast food, high carbohydrate intake, and lack of physical activity.
Another culprit of poor cable quality is the cable splitter.
Find the notorious culprit of the sinister murder!
Finally, heat is another possible culprit of Volvo spark plug wires' malfunctioning due to the temperature ruining the insulation provided by the silicone found in the wires.
Though everyone has assumed that Mac OS X is super secured with its exclusive security features, still there occurs certain situation where the user himself is the main culprit of losing the valuable data from Mac hard drive.
The pity is that the biggest culprit of all countries refuse to join the agreement, the United States.
He considered mother as the culprit of death of the first and second wives and openly hated it.
Vitamin B12, along with folate, is a involved in making the heme molecule that is an integral part of hemoglobin. Folate deficiency can be the culprit of anemia.
Mr President, I wonder why we are not beginning with the prime culprit of this sorry affair, which is none other than the European Union itself, which imposed the dismembering of Yugoslavia.
2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The culprit of obesity in children - inactivity It was bad enough hearing almost daily that obesity in adults is a growing problem, now our children are the focal point.
The police, as you may imagine, Miss Borden, are under a great deal of pressure to apprehend the culprit of this terrible act, to find someone to blame.
The story is set in a terribly dreary Krakow, where a similarly dreary policeman is convinced of having found the culprit of a cold homicide case and goes overboard in the attempt of getting a confession.
But based on the fact that his personal secretary Lee Shin has testified for everything... the prosecution points to Lee Jae Kyung as the culprit of this case.
He is the culprit of all that.
I'm the culprit of the recent murders.
Carbon dioxide is the prime culprit of the greenhouse effect.
Little that you know, you're the culprit of it.
Who was the culprit of my death?
You are the culprit of my sleepless nights, princess

Alternatives:

perpetrator of
instigator of
wrongdoer of
actor of
agent of

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