assassins

Synonyms

slayer bravo clipper liquidator killer murderer executioner plugger dropper hired gun samurai

Antonyms

peacekeeper dove diplomat conciliator appeaser reconciler
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Examples

The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins. Cyprian

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. Jean-Paul Sartre

We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins. George W. Bush

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. Terry Pratchett

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. Neil Patrick Harris