murderousness

To travel abroad praising dictatorships for their subways and cheeseburgers while ignoring their murderousness, and to return “radicalized … against our leaders” because foreign supermarket prices are low, is certainly not journalism.

His general, Zoya, armed with “beauty and general air of murderousness,” hesitates to explore the new depths of her power for fear of the emotional toll it will take.

Tony Soprano, Vic Mackey, Walter White, Frank Underwood, Don Draper — male murderousness and deception wrapped in charisma has been a dominant trope of the TV revolution.

Period dramas that give a feminist reading to female murderousness — the mainstream ones, anyway — look for a balance between justification and judgment.

Critics of Trump have often raised the subject of Putin’s murderousness.