Synonyms of murderers

murderers

noun

plural of murderer

as in assassins

a person who kills another person

the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassins
• killers
• cutthroats
• homicides
• torpedoes
• butchers
• slaughterers
• manslayers
• executioners
• slayers
• triggermen
• massacrers
• hit men
• murderesses
• bravos

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of murderers

All those players are expected to be back in attempt to win an AL West that was hardly a murderers’ row in 2026. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026

But Ema does not solve mysteries or bring murderers to justice. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026

In previous seasons depicting infamous American murderers Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Menendez brothers, their, uh, creative interpretation of the facts prompted backlash from victims’ families and sparked debate over the ethics of true crime. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

We are steeped in relativism, as confined by our narratives as the murderers are confined by theirs. — Robert Stone, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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

Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 June 2026