A fierce, murderous jealousy lanced through Meredith.
Cheating made him squirm; it made him nervous and murderous.
If the sun came out now it would be murderous.
In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.
In the story several people were fleeing in a car from several cars full of murderous enemies following them.
Miranda kicked her dressing table, feeling murderous.
She had hit him at lunchtime - her feelings now were even more murderous.
She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►murderous rage
(=anger that makes someone capable of murder)· Captain Black was in a murderous rage.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY►murderous look/expression/glare etc
She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.
She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounmurdermurdereradjectivemurderousverbmurderadverbmurderously
1very dangerous and likely to kill people: a murderous attack murderous drug dealers2murderous look/expression/glare etc an expression or look which shows that someone is very angry—murderously adverb