Sentence examples for were murderous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
Even so, many still resist the idea that the founding fathers of communism were murderous maniacs.
Stalin and Mao were murderous but low-tech; the Kim family added complex systems of repression.
"Kaczynski's actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane," he writes.
It had nothing to do with the Vikings, who, if we want to take it further, were murderous bastards, in addition to being voyagers and explorers".
"If you wouldn't go to Pol Pot's funeral or Stalin's funeral or Mao's funeral because they were murderous communist dictators, then you shouldn't be doing what Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau are doing, which is celebrating Fidel Castro: a murderous, communist dictator".
Battle tactics were often frontal assaults against entrenched positions and the results were murderous.
Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.
Politics was murderous, operatic, improvisational.
But his nature is murderous.
They are murderous thugs.
The reputation is murderous.
