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murdery

murdery adjective: committing, disposed to, or characteristic of murder.

Adjective

murdery (comparative more murdery, superlative most murdery)

  1. (informal) Committing, disposed to, or characteristic of murder.
    • So he gets a little murdery to speed up the inheritance process.2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics: Everything You Need to Know About the Books You Should Have Read (But Didn't), Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 98
    • Lately, there's been this contagious idea that I resemble a hungry, murdery girl ghost from a Japanese horror movie, so Jenny came to school in blue lipstick and white powder. To mock me.2015, Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia, HarperTeen, →ISBN

Forms of murdery

comparativemore murdery
superlativemost murdery

Origin of murdery

From murder + -y.

Questions about murdery

What does murdery mean?
Murdery means committing, disposed to, or characteristic of murder.
What part of speech is murdery?
Murdery is an adjective.

Words near murdery in the dictionary

  1. murders by suicide
  2. murders in the first degree
  3. murders in the second degree
  4. murders-for-hire
  5. murdersome
  6. murdery
  7. Murdin
  8. Murdins
  9. Murdo
  10. Murdoch
  11. Murdochian

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