as in murderous
eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
court-appointed psychiatrists have described the accused as a sociopath with homicidal tendencies who is a danger to himself and others
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Recent Examples of homicidal
Watching the murder scene being filmed upstairs plants homicidal ideas in Fred’s head.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 May 2025
In between those two explosions are several plane crashes, a spate of trigger-happy communist revolutionaries, and a homicidal argument over the profits from a poison gas that has killed more than 10,000 soldiers.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
The fact that death itself is the protagonist, rather than some mask-wearing homicidal maniac, is what gives these films their morbid allure.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office and the justice of peace confirmed that all three victims were shot and died from homicidal violence, investigators said.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 May 2025
In between those two explosions are several plane crashes, a spate of trigger-happy communist revolutionaries, and a homicidal argument over the profits from a poison gas that has killed more than 10,000 soldiers.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
The fact that death itself is the protagonist, rather than some mask-wearing homicidal maniac, is what gives these films their morbid allure.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office and the justice of peace confirmed that all three victims were shot and died from homicidal violence, investigators said.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homicidal
murderous
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This is a duplicitous, murderous regime that isn’t interested in dialogue.—
Danielle Wallace , Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2025
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Ordinary Iranians have been left without clean water, heating, job security or freedom of expression as Tehran has poured inordinate sums of money into assembling murderous proxies across the Middle East.—
Nuri Kino,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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“Homicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homicidal. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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