murderess
Noun
Meaning
A woman who commits murder.
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Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.
In Double Indemnity, Stanwyck brought out the cruel nature of the "grim, unflinching murderess," marking her as the "most notorious femme" in the film noir genre.
The dark woman—Brett Ashley of The Sun Also Rises —is a goddess; the light woman—Margot Macomber of " The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber "—is a murderess.
By the novel's end she has become an adulteress and is suspected of being a murderess.
In the first, he "rescued" an accused murderess, Harriet Vane, she stood accused of poisoning her former lover.
Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and U.S. Marhsal Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule are on the case.