homicidal
Speech parts
1. homicidal - Adjective
2. homicidal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
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Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right--a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.