exterminatory
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonexterminative adjective
- nonexterminatory adjective
Etymology
Origin of exterminatory
First recorded in 1780–90; exterminate + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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These exterminatory Islamist views are not narrowly political or military.
From US News
In 2014, what strange pleasures — and horrors — can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world?
From Salon
Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.
From The Guardian
Against this new, this growing, this exterminatory system, all these churches have a common concern to defend themselves.
From Project Gutenberg
After what has passed in 1782, one would not think that decorum, to say nothing of policy, would permit them to call up, by magic charms, the grounds, reasons, and principles of those terrible confiscatory and exterminatory periods.
From Project Gutenberg
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