murderousness

noun

Definition of murderousnessnext
as in bloodthirstiness

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  1. cruelty
  2. bloodlust
  3. savagery
  4. barbarity
  5. sadism
  6. inhumanity
  7. brutality
Noun
  • Family seeks stronger laws to combat animal cruelty Soon after Sonnemann was charged, Shelly Ciardo called numerous state legislators to try to get stronger laws to combat animal cruelty.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The sanctuary receives turkeys from factory farm workers who rescue them, anonymous drop-offs, animal cruelty cases, law enforcement and from individual farmers who initially purchase the turkeys and then grow attached.
    Maya Blackstone, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • There can be no peace until the Palestinians are freed from the shackles of Jew hatred, resentment and dreams of bloodlust.
    Evan Nierman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2024
  • It was revived anew, with a bigger bloodlust than before, thanks to this entry to the canon from writer Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven.
    Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bloodlust
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • The brutality then becomes more of the focus than the honesty the benefit to the feedback-giver might the benefit to the feedback-receiver.
    Eva Epker, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • With no small degree of coincidence, the filing comes as a federal judge Wednesday ruled New York City was in contempt for not adequately handling the brutality and growing violence at Rikers.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of brutality
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