Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a murderous or bloody manner.

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  • adverb In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.

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  • adverb as if bent on murder
  • adverb in a murderous frenzy

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Examples

  • The hour-plus finale thankfully shucked much of the grotesque Utah-Mormon-Gothic melodrama murderously mad prophet Alby was taken care of last week, shot down but not killed when he tried to storm the statehouse with the Henricksons inside and stressed the themes of an unorthodox family and marriage unit fighting for acceptance and survival in a judgmental and often violently unforgiving world.

    Roush Review: Big Love Finale 2011

  • And while we're laying wreaths, let us hope we're not going to be forced to say premature last rites to Fox's Lone Star, the best new show almost no one watched on a murderously competitive opening night of the fall season.

    Matt's TV Week in Review: Premiere Week Edition 2010

  • Harry hugged her tightly, looked over her head to glower murderously at the Steves.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Is a murderously repressive and shamelessly corrupt (in the literal sense of funneling State money to his personal bank account) Soviet kingpin better or worse than women-burning Sharia-inspired nutjobs?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan 2010

  • Dylan roared murderously, swinging his sword to brain his brother.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • His cold eyes gleaming murderously with the wrath that is slow to rise.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • It's significant how this religious inclusiveness related to the core struggle of Reagan's presidency: his desire to undermine a militantly, murderously atheistic Soviet regime, one he truly believed was "evil."

    Don't Forget An Essential Part of Reagan's Bio -- His Faith Josh Fleet 2011

  • With the opening of the new gladiator arena as a backdrop to the murderously vengeful power plays being enacted by the ruthlessly ambitious Batiatus John Hannah, savoring his mendacity to the end, this lusty, garishly gory melodrama spares no blood, shows no mercy and gives no quarter to its many pawns, high-born or low.

    Roush Review: Fringe, Supernatural, Spartacus: Friday Night Lights Up 2011

  • It's significant how this religious inclusiveness related to the core struggle of Reagan's presidency: his desire to undermine a militantly, murderously atheistic Soviet regime, one he truly believed was "evil."

    Don't Forget An Essential Part of Reagan's Bio -- His Faith Josh Fleet 2011

  • Is a murderously repressive and shamelessly corrupt (in the literal sense of funneling State money to his personal bank account) Soviet kingpin better or worse than women-burning Sharia-inspired nutjobs?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan 2010

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