genocidal

American  

[jen-uh-sahyd-uhl] / ˌdʒɛn əˈsaɪd əl /

adjective

1. relating to, engaged in, or tending toward genocide.

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Example Sentences

Consider Bartolomé de las Casas, the Dominican friar born in 1484 who described Christopher Columbus as a genocidal monster, or Michel de Montaigne, who wrote in the 1580s that even Indigenous people who practiced ritual cannibalism weren’t as evil or corrupt as the Europeans who conquered and enslaved them, and “who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.”

From Salon

Thailand welcomed Cambodian war refugees to the border area after the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime fell in 1979.

From Barron's

Senior Kurdish official Ilham Ahmed accused Damascus of launching a "genocidal war" against the Kurds, calling on the Syrian government to "pursue a path of reason to resolve problems through dialogue".

From Barron's

From genocidal aliens to aimless bromances, the best films of the year were audacious enough to reach a hand into the shadowy corners of our collective unrest, unafraid of what they might bring back with them after their survey was finished.

From Salon

"Today's ceremony marks the closing of a genocidal chapter, one that the international community must ensure is never repeated anywhere again," Sharif wrote on X.

From Barron's