You really believe he was trying to tear the word "murder" from that cover?

Some sort of trouble, the exact nature was not precisely clear, but the word murder began to creep in.

But they did not know, and during the hours the three sat conversing, the name Clutter was never mentioned, or the word murder.

He had not used the word 'murder', but it was what he meant.

"The combination of these two familiar activities makes for a certain, what have you, difficulty with the word 'murder.' "

The bland use of the word 'murder' had unnerved him.

Piggy can't even use the word "murder," as though not saying it will somehow undo what has happened.

She shied away from the actual word murder but that was the path her thoughts were leading.

I don't like this throwing around of the word murder.

Sometimes the Blood died at one another's hands, of course, but the word murder was never mentioned.