murderesses

Definition of murderessesnext
plural of murderess

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Noun
  • Why hadn’t any of her producers and writers over the years—a murderers’ row including Tove Lo, Julia Michaels, and the duo Monsters & Strangerz, of the Max Martin school—struck the vein of her personality?
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The cast is a murderers row of British actors, and the twisting plot of the novel is full of introspection and doubt, which makes for a tight 127 minutes of shocking revelations told through stern and troubled looks.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.
    Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As part of his guilty plea, Heuermann agreed to cooperate fully with the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit to help catch other serial killers.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Salas was pronounced dead at the scene, and in the years since, investigators have been unable to track down his killers.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Murderesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderesses. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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