Example Sentences

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She has that homicidally saccharine smile you normally see in customer services operatives who are administering a knockout financial blow.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017

It’s mostly naff, and when it’s not being naff, it’s being homicidally vituperative, and that’s just me emailing my husbear about how we should cook the Brussels sprouts for dinner.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2015

Danson's homicidally humbled and lonely Frobisher on "Damages" set the tone for that show's still incisive study of friendship and power.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2011