guilty person
Example Sentences
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He called for an investigation and for the guilty person to be removed.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
“If my work results even in one person not getting wrongly convicted, or one guilty person not going free, then it’s worth all the grief I’ve been getting,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● May 12, 2022
“All confessions that were given, at the time of the detective’s interview, were both vetted and corroborated based off of intimate knowledge of the crime only a guilty person would know,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
“It’s likely that there will not be a single guilty person or institution, but more a chain of events that together led to a catastrophic failure,” Travers said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
The guilty person was a very handsome man in his early thirties.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
