manslayers

plural of manslayer
as in murderers
a person who kills another person Cain has the distinction of being the Bible's first and most infamous manslayer

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Noun
  • And there exists no explicit government edict banning speculation about the motivation of murderers.
    Onkar Ghate, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Such comparisons are too easily drawn, with too much self-righteousness, as though the guilt for what was done to the Jews could be lightened just a little by likening them to their own murderers.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The emperor died immediately, and afterward his assassins dragged his tattered remains through the streets of Haiti’s future capital.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Also on Monday, Whoopi Goldberg gave a powerful bit of advice to would-be assassins from her post on the talk show.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Author Alma Katsu and writer-librarian Becky Spratford sat down for a conversation to discuss exactly why readers are more interested in horror — including everything from ghost stories to tales of serial killers — than ever before.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Manslayers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manslayers. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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