Definition of "slaughterous" [slaugh•ter•ous]

• Prone to slaughtering (adjective)

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• "Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf."
• "A good old fashioned superpowered slaughterous slugfest."
• "How much more are we willing to give, how much more evil are we to ignore by treacherous leaders, how much more of a "chance" will we give the new leader to escalate the slaughterous stakes in Afghanistan after seven years of brutal invasion and occupation?"