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Recent Examples of murderousness
The guy was a sleaze, but there’s a pretty big gap between sleaziness and murderousness.
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murderousness
Noun
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The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that Hunter Roy will serve six years behind bars after pleading guilty to cruelty to animals and endangering the welfare of a child.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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There was an implicit cruelty behind the exercise.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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On Seinfeld, the lore goes that Frank created the holiday out of frustration and bloodlust while Christmas shopping years ago.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Dec. 2025
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Savage doesn’t need this guy on a song to chart, and no tough talk Drake tried this year has succeeded in convincing people outside his fandom of the bloodlust in someone who sued his label over a diss track.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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O’Connell is terrific, but both his character and his performance are badly served by the prolonged savagery of certain scenes.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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Cash hasn’t so much tamed the savagery of the internet as turned on parental controls.—
Gideon Leek,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Cathy escapes, the Jimmies' numbers are diminished, and the stomach-churning barbarity finally comes to an end.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
16 Jan. 2026
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His observations about the barbarity of women’s beauty regimens aren’t exactly new, but they are acted out with enthusiasm and verve.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The series begins before Gein has ever killed, in 1945, as dawning awareness of death camps in Europe fills the air with sadism and conspiracy thinking.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival; the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
27 Dec. 2025
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The attack, along with a concerning increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States, serves as a warning about passivity in the face of inhumanity.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
18 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The relentless flow of appalling events eventually overloads the nervous system; the rising tide of brutality, which once seemed shocking, comes to seem unremarkable.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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For Hasan as well, this round of unrest felt different, reflecting both the brutality of an increasingly paranoid regime and a new level of public anger and appetite for confrontation.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Murderousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderousness. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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