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Murderous vs Robespierre - What's the difference?

murderous | robespierre |

As an adjective murderous

is intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.

As a proper noun robespierre is

the french revolutionary leader , 1758-1794 often used as a byword for a murderous demagogue or tyrant.

murderous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
    • murderous behaviour
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  • Very difficult.
    • a murderous exam

    robespierre

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The French Revolutionary leader , 1758-1794. Often used as a byword for a murderous demagogue or tyrant.
  • * {{quote-book, 1863, , Spectator of America citation
    • , passage=Why, Greeley wants to be blood-thirsty — he wants to be a little Robespierre .}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1922, October 2, , Gonatas Not a Robespierre, Boston Daily Globe citation
    • , passage="I am not, as you have seen, a Robespierre , and I don't even want to be thought of as a military dictator," said Col Gonatas, leader of the revolutionary movement,
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors citation
    • , passage=During communications blackouts when Allison, who was the Robespierre of the ship, forbade all outside contacts, Taggart lurched out onto the aft deck, ----