A good old fashioned superpowered slaughterous slugfest. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Prose Fiction: Secret World Chronicle - 02 The Hunt 11 Bombay the Hard Way 2] Reference
Sick of unjustified and slaughterous war, we voted Democratic. From Wordnik.com. [Supplementally the People Lose Again] Reference
Conquests, triumphs, and slaughterous glory are not very nice till they have ceased to drip. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
One of its former members a Prime Minister, a dictator, under a king installed by its slaughterous coup. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
She was NOT "courageous," but furtive in keeping the treachery silent, thereby perverting the cause for slaughterous war. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Pelosi; Courageous Hero] Reference
At last my slaughterous appetite was gratified, and a blue-cow bore witness to the merit of my rifle, if not to my marksmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Or (b) To live with the lie and to allow it to become precedent for the inevitability of similar future political and slaughterous treachery. From Wordnik.com. [Covering the Truth of 911 Invites Similar Atrocity] Reference
Perhaps not, but the world and history will not forgive dull minds in seeking self-advantage in the face of the slaughterous consequences, nor will we. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Peace Force] Reference
I hadn't noticed, and hadn't thought about it, and suddenly realized what an amazing thing it is to have my first ever spring without slaughterous overtones. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Fear the Reaper] Reference
Consequently, it is a source of inexpressible comfort and happiness to find, that in various periods of our history, the Chuzzlewits were actively connected with divers slaughterous conspiracies and bloody frays. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
It is amazing how many Americans criticize the action of the Muslim who threw his shoes at the personification of lying treachery when we should in fact commend him for displaying courage literally to the face of slaughterous power. From Wordnik.com. [Kudos to the Shoe Launcher] Reference
One word from the Queen would have sufficed to let loose on the Boers the slaughterous fury of almost all native South Africa, but had that word been spoken there could have been found no forgiveness for it in this life or in the life to come. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
The Spaniards fought like heroes, day after slaughterous day. From Wordnik.com. [Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas] Reference
We will trample on you and your slaughterous regime, they shouted. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
Marmaduke - It's about time the authorities did something about Marmaduke's slaughterous rampage. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Curmudgeon] Reference
As our men, on the other hand, were no less determined to take it, the contest became furious and slaughterous. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Rebel] Reference
But war then was more the rough play of boisterous children than the slaughterous, purely destructive thing that modern men have made it. From Wordnik.com. [The World Decision] Reference
"Ef yo 'saves a life, you has to give one for hit, mos' eveh time, an 'mo' specially in the Fillippians whah they's so murderful and slaughterous.". From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
Clear as the voice of a clarion when it soundeth by reason of slaughterous foemen that beleaguer a city, so clear rang forth the voice of Aiakides. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Against its vengeful, slaughterous descent there is no protection for the people, -- nothing but an uncertain shelter in cellars, or, it may be, in the common sewers. From Wordnik.com. [The Duel Between France and Germany] Reference
The mind that had dreamed of universal brotherhood and the Oneness of Humanity now dreamed of ambushes, night-attacks, slaughterous strategy and magazine-fire on a cornered foe. From Wordnik.com. [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference
Meanwhile, the hounds, being held in leash, kept up a loud and incessant baying; and Henry, wearying of his slaughterous sport, turned to Anne, and asked her whether she was disposed for the chase. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
2335: Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Macbeth (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
NOT in any wise would the earls’-defence suffer that slaughterous stranger to live, useless deeming his days and years to men on earth. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
NOT in any wise would the earls’-defence 36 suffer that slaughterous stranger to live, useless deeming his days and years to men on earth. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
And with these slaughterous hands draw sword no more. ". From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
I rolled it out, it was this — ‘With slaughterous sons of thunder rolled the flood’ great nonsense, of course, but I thought it fine!”. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Tennyson] Reference
The rest remained for a slaughterous hour. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
And stands, shouting for a slaughterous axe. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
My better nature with its slaughterous lusts. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini] Reference
When the slaughterous sword is drawn to more. From Wordnik.com. [Chartist Song] Reference
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Macbeth] Reference
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [More Pages from a Journal] Reference
And slaughterous hands reeking with ardent toil. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
And make the slaughterous foe an useful slave. From Wordnik.com. [The progress of civil society : a didactic poem, in six books] Reference
Danger, slaughterous fire. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Lyrics] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

