Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
murderous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses
- noun cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder
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Examples
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I gave her lines and a catchphrase and a backstory all her own: Insane, murderess-cum-motivational speaker gives roadside speeches after the Springfield Home of the Criminally Insane releases her for having a preexisting condition - "murderousness" - that won't be covered under the new health care plan passed in Washington.
unknown title 2009
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I gave her lines and a catchphrase and a backstory all her own: Insane, murderess-cum-motivational speaker gives roadside speeches after the Springfield Home of the Criminally Insane releases her for having a preexisting condition - "murderousness" - that won't be covered under the new health care plan passed in Washington.
unknown title 2009
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I gave her lines and a catchphrase and a backstory all her own: Insane, murderess-cum-motivational speaker gives roadside speeches after the Springfield Home of the Criminally Insane releases her for having a preexisting condition - "murderousness" - that won't be covered under the new health care plan passed in Washington.
unknown title 2009
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Judas is a dark journey through the murderousness of Christian Anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of more than a and their associated European butchers.
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Such parallels are plausible only if you ignore Che's own murderous violence and the murderousness of the ideology he espoused.
The Lost Century Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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What binds all of these is not callousness to human frailty but an intensity of life that may live despite the possibilities of loneliness, thievery, murderousness, lies, slavery, abuse, and strife that forever threaten to drown us all as it did in the time of Noah.
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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Furthermore, and more to the point, we have a long history of ignorance about, or indifference to, that murderousness.
Jonathan Weiler: According to Peretz, Americans Must Think Life Is Cheap 2010
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Furthermore, and more to the point, we have a long history of ignorance about, or indifference to, that murderousness.
Jonathan Weiler: According to Peretz, Americans Must Think Life Is Cheap 2010
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Another kind of family murderousness is on display here in Bellocchio's new film: an account of the dismal life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini's lover, mother of his child, and – according to some sources – his first wife.
Vincere 2010
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Motherliness and murderousness have melted together.
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