David Souter

Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

American Judge

Maggie Stiefvater

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

American Author

Richard Corliss

The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.

American Writer

George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

British Author

George W. Bush

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

American President

Christina Ricci

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

American Actress

Homicidal implies a severe negative judgment and is associated with danger.

Negative Connotation

Homicidal can describe extreme anger or hate, suggesting potential violence.

Intensity of Emotion

Homicidal often appears in legal discussions around criminal intent and behavior.

Legal Context

Indicates a very strong desire to kill, showing dangerous behavior.

Extreme Behavior

Authors use the word to increase tension or indicate a character's dangerous mindset.

Literary Dramatization

Be cautious not to use 'homicidal' lightly due to its serious implications.

Avoid Light Usage

 rewrote the rules of crime detection in this country. And that wasn't easy because poisons were everywhere. If we take this one, arsenic trioxide, arsenic trioxide's probably the most famous homicidal poison in history

Early forensics and...

 Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be. Again, see number one. At family gatherings where you suddenly feel homicidal or suicidal --

Homicidal

Negative Connotation

Intensity of Emotion

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