manslayers

noun

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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  1. murderers
  2. assassins
Noun
  • Not only did the scale of the broader violence across the South indicate a campaign to mass-murder an ethnic subgroup for political purposes, but Tillman, perhaps the most infamous of the Hamburg murderers, never denied the attack’s goals.
    — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
  • At his funeral back in Chicago, the boy’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket so all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Definition of murderers
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  • In November 2024, assassins on a motorcycle in the Pacific port city of Manzanaillo shot dead a rear admiral who was said to have blown the whistle on navy entanglement in fuel-smuggling.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The young women acted as underground assassins, seducing Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026
Definition of assassins
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