People carrying out harmful acts

Usage examples of perpetrators.

Later it was disclosed that the perpetrators of these acts were not Anarchists, but members of the police department.

There was no doubt as to why he had been killed, or that the Raiders were his murderers, but the actual perpetrators were never discovered.

I will seize by the collar all the perpetrators, continually caught red-handed in the commission of all these outrages!

My several decades of experience in dealing with perpetrators, victims, and their families has told me that responses to horrible emotional trauma are very individual.

I make no plea for the cadet, but I fail to see why he should be mercilessly hounded, while the real perpetrators of all social iniquity enjoy immunity and respect.