stiletto

as inknife

as inpoint
as inweapon
as inhigh heels
as inmucro
as inmucronation
as indagger

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Synonyms for stiletto

noun cutting tool

More words related to stiletto

dagger

noun. knife

daggers

noun. knife

knife

noun. cutting tool

knives

noun. cutting tool

point

noun. sharp end, top, end of extension

points

noun. sharp end, top, end of extension

Word Origin & History

1610s, "short dagger with a thick blade," from Italian stiletto, diminutive of stilo "dagger," from Latin stilus "pointed writing instrument" (see style (n.)). Stiletto heel first attested 1953.

Example Sentences for stiletto

As for the other palace servants, they had been silenced with bribery or the stiletto.

And he recognized the girl with the stiletto whom he had caught in his hotel room.

It is only a short step with them from a sworn friendship to the stiletto.

Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me.

It was then that he was done for and with what is assumed to have been a stiletto.

He drew the stiletto from his bosom, and threw that after it.

And yet, if that offer had not been made as some sort of stiletto jest, why had it been made at all?

There was on the toilet-table a stiletto, with a pearl handle.

Soon after that the villain came to her, and she stabbed him directly with this stiletto.

Among the natives he was known as "Malabanan's stiletto," and was supposed to do all of the killing.

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Synonyms for stiletto

dagger