exterminatory

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These exterminatory Islamist views are not narrowly political or military.

From US News

In 2014, what strange pleasures — and horrors — can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world? 

From Salon

Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.

From The Guardian

The North Korean regime at week's end pronounced itself "fully combat ready" and determined to deliver "an exterminatory blow" at the U.S. if attacked.

From Time Magazine Archive

The country was inhabited by several nations of Indians, some known as Wood Indians, others as Prairie Indians and these again were divided into tribes or clans, frequently at war with each other; and these wars were cruel in the extreme, often exterminatory, neither age nor sex being spared.

From Project Gutenberg