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The word 'homicidal' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who has acted violently with the intention to kill, or to describe someone's behavior as being violent enough to lead to death. For example: "The man's homicidal rage caused him to violently attack his neighbor."
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homicidal
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Of or pertaining to homicide, and particularly to one who commits such a crime as with a homicidal maniac.
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By 2011, homicidal violence declined by about 80%, and in 2012, Medellín was named the city of the year".
Indeed, only about 0.5% of people generally account for up to 75% of homicidal violence in major cities.
His favourite directors, Ken Loach and Antonia Bird, have cast him as everything from a Glaswegian bus driver caught up in the Nicaraguan civil war to a homicidal vagrant.
When I ponder my decomposing professional life: the late payment, underpayment, nonpayment and general all-round personal and intellectual violation it inevitably involves, surely my knuckles cramp with cruel and unusual bewilderment or homicidal tetchiness?
In 2013, with the aid of Congolese soldiers, it dispersed another homicidal group in eastern Congo called M23.
THERE is a scene in "Transformers", a blockbuster that came out last week, in which a mobile phone turns into a homicidal robot.
(To be fair, the people most likely to consider American football boring are Australians, who play a similarly homicidal but faster-paced game.
Intelligence is beamed back to units trying to flush out homicidal groups.
As Ronald Reagan said during the Ethiopian famine of 1984, justifying aid to a country run by homicidal Marxists, "A hungry child knows no politics".
The idea of an elephantine hanging was opposed by animal-rights activists (though another homicidal elephant, Murderous Mary, was indeed hung in Erwin, Tennessee, in 1916 .Enter Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.
Ironically, it seems that cinema audiences find it less troubling to consider the CIA as homicidal thugs than they do al-Qaeda.
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