dagger

Definition

  • noun: a sharp pointed knife that is used as a weapon
  • noun: a sharp pointed knife for stabbing
  • synonyms: stab, dirk, knife

Examples

  • political parties that are 'at daggers drawn' (with each other)

  • They 'looked daggers at' each other across the table.

  • a 'cloak-and-dagger' novel

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) of an enseamed bed Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sly Oh speak to me no more, these words like daggers enter in mine ears - No more, sweet Hamlet - A murderer and a villain A slave that is not the twentieth part the worth of your preceding lord A king of vices, (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) Oh heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her but use none I like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range. Therefore prepare you I your commission will forthwith dispatch (..)
    2015 Hamlet