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

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

Our law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles and rapists. — Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026

Moscow has long portrayed UPA fighters as murderers and Nazi collaborators, and has accused Zelenskyy of being an heir to this legacy, falsely claiming that his government is overrun by Nazis as a pretext for its full-scale invasion. — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 June 2026

That year, even major characters and first-person narrators wound up dead, killed by strangers or friends or family members, often by parents, or serial murderers, or in accidents, usually right at the end at the story, no warning. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

That is always top of mind for writers like Ian Brennan, whose story about life and motivations of one of the most notorious murderers and grave robbers in American history was also an exploration of complex mental health struggles. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 10 June 2026

DeMore, who served 12 years as a prosecutor in the Suffolk DA’s office along with seven years as a criminal defense attorney, would have been the lone ex-prosecutor on the Parole Board — which has been releasing dozens of first-degree murderers from prison. — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 June 2026