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• A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.From the entry fight
• The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.From the entry geography
• The most important fact never to forget is the Party’s murderous history.2021 June 30, “100 Years of Chinese Communism”, in Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021, Opinion. From the entry Yenan
• Their murderous rampages on bee colonies have earned them the nickname ‘murder hornets’ from entomologists.2017 January 1, “The Asian Giant Hornet, The Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Is The Stuff Of Nightmares”, in All That's Interesting. From the entry murder hornet
• My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end.2011, Joanna Lumley, Absolutely,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 141. From the entry dictatrix
• Bean’s version plays like the murderous hero of “Crime and Punishment” reimagined as a wraithlike stalker.2007 January 20, Matt Zoller Seitz, “Easy Does It, the Next Stop Is a Killer. No, It Really Is.”, in New York Times. From the entry wraithlike
• I saw standing up out of the grass a murderous length of sharp steel.1947, James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece, page 229. From the entry gaum
• The more intensely the super-ego seeks to renounce the murderous impulse, the more cruel the psychic mechanism becomes.2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence. From the entry superegoic
• I stand over it, red-faced, sweaty, deshabilled, murderous.2019 February 5, Peter Mendelsund, Same Same: A Novel, Vintage, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry gone-zo
• It was murderous, but there was no escape.2009, Robert van Voren, On Dissidents and Madness: From the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the “Soviet Union” of Vladimir Putin…. From the entry bliny
• The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.1993, Lukáš Tomin, Ashtrays, page 29. From the entry storyful
• Everest remained a challenge: aloof, inviolate, murderous.1953, 5:41 from the start, in The Conquest of Everest, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2020. From the entry Everest
• It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 29, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry purposive
• Few animals known to man possess the savage and murderous nature of the small whale-like animals known as killers or orcas.1908, Charles Frederick Holder, Big Game at Sea, Outing publishing Company, page 137. From the entry killer
• As things go from bad to worse for Putin in his maniacal, murderous attack on Ukraine, he could end up like Milosevic, or worse.2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald, archived from the…. From the entry hang
• Topping watched peasant folk dances with Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who was later a driving force in the murderous purge dubbed the Cultural Revolution.2020 November 8, Harrison Smith, “Seymour Topping, high-powered foreign correspondent and editor, dies at 98”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry Yanan
• Others may enjoy being frightened by chainsaw-wielding maniacs and cannibal clowns, but my Halloween is never complete without a murderous Muppet or two.2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando…. From the entry maniac
• It is not murderous venom that courses in black veins but loving tolerance for the stranger, which is the central moral imperative of the Gospel.2015 June 20, Michael Eric Dyson, “Love and Terror in the Black Church”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2016. From the entry moral imperative
• The English knights and men-at-arms carried broadswords, maces for smashing skulls and the murderous pole-axe, combining a spear with an axehead about five feet long.2013, Colin Brown, “1415 Azincourt”, in Glory and B*llocks: The Truth Behind Ten Defining Events in British History, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry broadsword
• The standard assessment suggests that as the munera became purely a spectacle, they became more murderous because the public wanted to see blood.2010, Alison Futrell, Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry blood
• Something had distracted the elder from her murderous ragesome thought, Gillian suspected, though when she reached tentatively out, Nim Wei's mind was again a blank.2006, Emma Holly, Midnight Desire, page 154. From the entry ragesome
• In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle.2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82. From the entry swordstick
• The only way in which she could contain her despairing and murderous rage was to lash herself to the mast of her towering superego.2002, Bernardine Bishop, Ideas in Practice, page 34. From the entry lash oneself to the mast
• In the months leading up to his murderous assault upon the vendor of iced sweeteries, the Daddy had, as they say, lived on his nerves.2001, Robert Rankin, The Fandom of the Operator, London: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry sweetery
• Under the thin coating of phrases regarding universal peace principles appears the ravenous and murderous policy that is working its will in Russia.[1918 February 27, “Increased food production necessary”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN…. From the entry populicide
• The modern fascistoids employ terribly violent language, with often tragic and murderous consequences, but they do not stage invasions and do not really aim at war.2021, Harold James, “Globalization and Its Neologisms”, in The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization, New Haven, CT: Yale University…. From the entry fascistoid
• Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network or a murderous dictator or the two working together constitutes as grave a threat as can be imagined.2002 August 27, “Eyes on Iraq: In Cheney’s Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry deliverable

Meaning of murderous

1. adjective Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
2. adjective Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
3. adjective Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.

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How do you use murderous in a sentence?

Murderous is used as an adjective. For example: “She gave me a murderous look.”

What is a short sentence with murderous?

“a murderous exam”

What does murderous mean?

Murderous means of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.