Murderer
['mɜːd(ə)rə(r)] or ['mɝdərɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being).
Checker: Mollie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
(n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
Typist: Wanda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Slaughterer, assassin, slayer, killer, butcher, cut-throat.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- You murderer of peasants. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- From hour to hour yesterday I expected to hear that he had been found, and that his abductor was the murderer of John Straker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The tide,' cried the murderer, as he staggered back into the room, and shut the faces out, 'the tide was in as I came up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- So you despair of arresting the murderer of poor Straker, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whether Mr. Murderer and Mrs. Murderess Manning were not both unusually stout people? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One of them fired a shot, the other dropped, and the murderer rushed across the garden and over the hedge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards escaped by the window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You crazy murderer! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The murderer was never punished, for the good reason that he was never caught--the result of the further circumstance that he was never pursued. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You see that his murderer might have torn the rest of the sheet from him or he might have taken this fragment from the murderer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- What do you expect from a murderer? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You would do me a greater still if you could lay your hands on the murderer of John Straker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If she died, where could there be found on record a murderer, whose cruel act might compare with his? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the few cases that get into the newspapers, are there not instances of slain bodies found, and no murderers ever discovered? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But now, in the midst of the dying and the dead, how could a thought of heaven or a sensation of tranquillity possess one of the murderers? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Its appearance and the dust upon the bottle showed that it was no common vintage which the murderers had enjoyed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. Plato. The Republic.
- And if Count Fosco must divide murderers into classes, I think he has been very unfortunate in his choice of expressions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Murderers were not the only people liable to be hanged, and women convicts were not treated like ladies in undeserved distress. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice, and hint that Providence must sleep. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In the defensive declarations and pretended confessions of murderers, the pursuing shadow of this torture may be traced through every lie they tell. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These papers have all been burned by the murderers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I only hope this'll teach master not to have any more of these dreadful creatures, that are born to be murderers and robbers from their very cradle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Would he steal on me in my sleep; or should I contend to the last with my murderers, knowing, even while I struggled, that I must be overcome? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A short time ago three murderers were taken beyond the city walls and shot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the wickedness cannot be covered; the guilt will lie on the whole land, till justice is done on the murderers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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