murderer

Definitions

1. A person who commits murder
2. A person who commits murder.

Equivalents

Examples

“Neither does a great nation […] debate⟳, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save⟳, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.”

“It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay⟳ his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick⟳ with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress⟳ of this insensate cruelty; […]”

“I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last⟳ rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.”

““Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix⟳ up sentiment and reason⟳.””

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