Both Uses
perpetrator
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Tell him about that difference between him ...[He gets no answer from the huddled little group which is restraining Tom Junior perpetrating murder right there in the cocktail lounge.†
Scene 2.2perpetrating = doing something wrong or illegal
- I don't understand what happened to Belle Reve but you don't know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.†
Scene 3.2 *perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetrator) someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)