Thesaurus results for MURDERESS

murderess

noun

as in murderer

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Recent Examples of murderess After Hunnam's turn leading the Monster franchise, Ella Beatty will step in for season 4 when the show focuses on Lizzie Borden, a 19th-century accused (but acquitted) murderess. —

Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 So the murderess Winterton runs into Oscar at the opera. —

Alice Burton, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025 Once Upon a Time … helped launch the careers of Sydney Sweeney and Mikey Madison, the latter of whom went directly from a Manson murderess fried to a crisp by Rick Dalton’s movie prop flame thrower, to the Best Actress Oscar winner for Anora. —

Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 May 2025 This scandalous show tells the story of two murderesses, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, who compete for headlines and fame. —

Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for murderess

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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.

— William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
The parolee list features a man who killed his girlfriend’s 22-month-old daughter, and a first-degree murderer who fatally shot a restaurant owner during a robbery.

— Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026