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whydunits

whydunits is the plural of whydunit.

Meaning of whydunit

Noun

whydunit (plural whydunits)

  1. A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
    • Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420

Questions about whydunits

What is whydunits the plural of?
Whydunits is the plural of whydunit.

Words near whydunits in the dictionary

  1. whydah
  2. whydahs
  3. whydas
  4. whydja
  5. whydunit
  6. whydunits
  7. whydunnit
  8. whydunnits
  9. whyed
  10. whyever
  11. whyfor

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