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murderer

[ mur-der-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

1300–50; Middle English mortherer, mord ( e ) rer; murder, -er ¹

murderers' row,
1. the row of cells in a prison where murderers and other violent or hard-core criminals are held. death row.
2. Baseball. a succession of heavy hitters scheduled to bat one after the other.
3. any group of notorious or important people:
  a murderers' row of talent;
  a murderers' row of philosophers.

Murderer, lunatic, and defamer of Islam will certainly be listed in his obituaries.

There was “My Husband, the Convicted Murderer” and “My Son, The Pink Boy.”

“Murderer,” after failing to prevent the massacres of Lebanese civilians at the Sabra and Shatila camps in 1982.

Renounce the good law of the worshippers of Mazda, and thou shalt gain such a boon as the Murderer gained, the ruler of nations.

Paula, who had not spoken since the child was carried off, suddenly screamed at Bregg, "Murderer!"

Murderer, you hide your face, but you shall bear my mark, that I may know you when we meet again.

For, the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him.

Hearsay cried “Murderer,” but his own personal experience denied the term.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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