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Word entry · 8 letters

murderer

Best crossword clue

"Crime-story killer"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɜːdəɹə/Part of speech nounSorted deemrrruStarts with MEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

Word origin

From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
  • I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
  • “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

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