slaughterous meaning

Adjective: slaughterous

1. Accompanied by bloodshed
   - gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, butcherly

See also: bloody, slaughter

Examples

1. Until the last act, when the plot disintegrates into a slaughterous muddle of sicko-killer cliches, the film is savvy enough, and scary enough, to sustain us.
2. He hears the cry of a woman and reflects that there was a time when his hair would have stood on end if he had heard such a cry, but he is now so full of horrors and slaughterous thoughts that it can no longer startle him.