From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmurderousmur‧der‧ous /ˈmɜːdərəs $ ˈmɜːr-/ adjective 1 KILLvery dangerous and likely to kill people a murderous attack murderous drug dealers2 → murderous look/expression/glare etc —murderously adverb
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murderous• Cheating made him squirm; it made him nervous and murderous.• If the sun came out now it would be murderous.• Miranda kicked her dressing table, feeling murderous.• She had hit him at lunchtime - her feelings now were even more murderous.• a murderous attack• In the story several people were fleeing in a car from several cars full of murderous enemies following them.• In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.• A fierce, murderous jealousy lanced through Meredith.• She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.• Stalin's murderous regime 