murderess
Example Sentences
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Marten said she was worried people would think she was "some evil mother" or a "murderess."
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
In this eerie, rather primitive context, its easy to surmise that the murderess is a witch.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Rivera also inhabited roles like Rosie, the girlfriend of a rock star’s manager in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the original Velma and later the ambitious murderess Roxie in “Chicago,” and former showgirl Lilane in “Nine.”
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
A 1950s lawman pursues a murderess who appears to have vanished from a locked room within a fortresslike psychiatric hospital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
And Gipsy, feeling as though she were his murderess, sat by his side, and, gazing on the still, cold form, shed the first bitter tears that had ever fallen from her eyes.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
