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manslaughterer

noun as in murderer

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As Carr writes in the new book, his father, the Beat poet, journalist and convicted manslaughterer Lucien Carr, had a habit of knocking his son down flights of stairs.

I’m saying you’re a manslaughterer.

From Slate

Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle," was lodged in jail, alleged manslaughterer.

She was the Murderer, bound for Gallows Bay; she was the Manslaughterer, bound for Penal Settlement; her captain ought to be tried for his life; her crew ran down men in row-boats with a relish; she mashed up Thames lightermen with her paddles; she fired property with her funnels; she always was, and she always would be, wreaking destruction upon somebody or something, after the manner of all her kind.

For Gilbert Gildersleeve, accidental manslaughterer as he was, was not by any means a depraved or wholly heartless person.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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