murderableadj.
/ˈməːdərəbl/, U.S. /ˈmərdərəb(ə)l/ Giving cause for murder; liable to be murdered; provoking or inviting murder.
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murderable1920
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love ii. 32 A murderee is a man who is murderable. And a man who is murderable is a man who in a profound, if hidden lust, desires to be murdered.
1927 Sunday Express 21 Aug. 10/4 This tendency to associate unpopular opinions with murderable offences seems to be an increasing one on both sides of the Atlantic.
1966 New Statesman 18 Mar. 377/1 They had made good... And hence the immediate public terror caused by their murder: the least murderable people in the world, if they could be murdered, then anyone could be murdered.
1998 Kirkus Rev. 1 Nov. 1566 As if her imperious behavior weren't enough to make Myrna murderable, she'd evidently been blackmailing every one of her business associates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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