murderousness
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈmɜrdərəsnəs/
- NSFW
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- Portella was dangerous because of his eccentricity and a passionate murderousness that sometimes had no relationship to necessity.
Motivation for serious misbehavior, you might say, like sadistic murderousness and the enjoyment that can be derived from that.
- Motivation for serious misbehavior, you might say, like sadistic murderousness and the enjoyment that can be derived from that.
- Oh, Wagner always talks about it as people look at him and what they see in his eyes is this murderousness.
Examples
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It is the lower sphere of the Almighty—its people in all their murderousness and treachery to whom she must now accommodate.
Fiction book (2001) -
The film depicts the murderousness of the characters as they betray each other without remorse.
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The "untold" bits include Truman's racist murderousness and a particular focus on the starring role of the Soviet Union.
Blog text (10) -
Gone are the days when religion-fueled murderousness was limited by swords and bows, stakes and racks, and the simple fact of geography.
Blog text (29) -
Marxist-Leninist regimes may be unmatched in their record of murderousness, but they were never great believers in the virtues of martyrdom.
Academic text (2010) -
Yet Hamlet’s clownlike humor and verbal generosity also mask a strange violence; they project the murderousness that made G. Wilson Knight speak of the prince as "the embassy of death."
Academic text (1994) -
"It is not that hard to imagine what kind of seditious thoughts about royal murderousness or sexual betrayal are likely to be 'botched up' by idle listeners, or even to say what might be 'unhappy' in a listener's thinking that there might be thought where there isn't any.
Academic text (1994) -
In his speech, the politician condemned the murderousness found in violent extremism worldwide.
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The novel explores the theme of murderousness through its portrayal of characters consumed by hatred.
Synonyms
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6.3
A wish to hurt someone or make them suffer
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8.2
A strong desire to hurt or kill others in violence
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6.3
Being very cruel and violent toward other people or animals
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8.8
A feeling of wanting to harm other people
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8.2
To want to kill or seriously hurt someone, often planned in advance
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8.6
A strong wish to kill or hurt people
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9.2
A strong wish to kill or hurt others and enjoy violence
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9.9
A strong wish to hurt or cause pain to other people
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7.0
Very violent and cruel actions that frighten people
Willingness to hurt or kill people during violent acts
A feeling of wanting to harm other people
A very cruel way of behaving that shows no kindness
Antonyms
How Murderous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word murderousness is made of simple parts: murder ('unlawful killing'), -ous ('full of'), and -ness ('state'). So it literally means the 'state of being full of murder', which helps you remember it as being likely to kill or showing very violent hate.