Associations to the word «Manslaughter»

Wiktionary

MANSLAUGHTER, noun. (obsolete) The slaying of a human being.
MANSLAUGHTER, noun. (law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.

Dictionary definition

MANSLAUGHTER, noun. Homicide without malice aforethought.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King