Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bent on killing; murderous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destructive; murderous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective prone to
slaughtering
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective accompanied by bloodshed
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Examples
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Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.
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Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.
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Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.
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Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.
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Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.
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A good old fashioned superpowered slaughterous slugfest.
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Or (b) To live with the lie and to allow it to become precedent for the inevitability of similar future political and slaughterous treachery.
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She was NOT "courageous," but furtive in keeping the treachery silent, thereby perverting the cause for slaughterous war.
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/10/09: We, too, Can "Cut and Run" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'We, too, Can "Cut and Run"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Messengers from the same masters who schemed us into the slaughterous debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan now advise that "we can\'t just cut and run."
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How much more are we willing to give, how much more evil are we to ignore by treacherous leaders, how much more of a "chance" will we give the new leader to escalate the slaughterous stakes in Afghanistan after seven years of brutal invasion and occupation?
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