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“They are braver than the silly roach, and not quite so slaughterous as the pike are.”

You can still see little badges bearing Escobar's image on Colombian taxis, but the power of the drugs cartel began to weaken as the trade moved north to Mexico, with equally slaughterous results.

From BBC

Again, his exclamation of ‘blood, blood, blood!’ is direful and slaughterous to the deepest degree; the very words appear stained and gory.

As our men, on the other hand, were no less determined to take it, the contest became furious and slaughterous.

The Spaniards fought like heroes, day after slaughterous day.

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

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