Meaning of arsonical | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).

not-comparable

Examples

“He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop⟳. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.”

“1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393, In Cyprus he must deal⟳ with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate⟳ were murderous or arsonical.”

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