as in murderous
eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
court-appointed psychiatrists have described the accused as a sociopath with homicidal tendencies who is a danger to himself and others
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Recent Examples of homicidal
Its homicidal lovers plainly are as gay as a day in May, yet just closeted enough to pass muster with the Code.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Everyone’s favorite homicidal doll, M3GAN, is back for another outing, and nobody’s more excited about it than Gerard Johnstone.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 June 2025
Over the next few weeks, there will be press releases showing Boyle posing for events in Paris, Rome, London, and other cities that, were a viral outbreak to occur that causes people to fly into homicidal frenzies, would be turned into metropolitan ruins.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
The Indigenous peoples who survived all this barbarity are now facing the same list of homicidal intolerance.
—Kevin Giraud, Variety, 7 June 2025
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Everyone’s favorite homicidal doll, M3GAN, is back for another outing, and nobody’s more excited about it than Gerard Johnstone.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 June 2025
Over the next few weeks, there will be press releases showing Boyle posing for events in Paris, Rome, London, and other cities that, were a viral outbreak to occur that causes people to fly into homicidal frenzies, would be turned into metropolitan ruins.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
The Indigenous peoples who survived all this barbarity are now facing the same list of homicidal intolerance.
—Kevin Giraud, Variety, 7 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for homicidal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homicidal
murderous
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Maybe audiences in 2025 will be more embracing of a murderous St. Nick than in the 1980s.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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As the icky Ick mutates from being a benign vine-like growth to a murderous alien entity, Hank might have a surprising, unexpected relationship with his student Grace (Malina Pauli Weissman) who just happens to be the daughter of Suvari’s Staci, his high school romance.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
26 July 2025
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“Homicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homicidal. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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