"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Abbie couldn't quite believe the twisted, tortuous motives.
- Whatever the twisted motive, prosecutors are right to investigate the causes and recommend safeguards, though it may well be that no safeguard will work perfectly.
- Boldt has the background in forensic medicine, and Matthews, the department psychologist, dopes out the killer's twisted motive.
- Digging deeper, he uncovers more twisted motives for murder in the town's ancient feuds between cattle ranchers and oilmen, the land-grabbers and the land-drillers.
- It was the scheming witch who poisoned my brother's mind against me--who lured him into a black conspiracy to fulfill, her own twisted motives.
- Dallben's final condemnation of the treacherous king summarizes well his twisted motives:
- "He thinks everyone must be as twisted as himself, wi' a dozen different motives; one for every occasion."
- Whatever twisted motives Mr. Muhammad may have had, there is no reason to believe that he was using the sniper attacks for political ends.
- Instead, from some great and twisted motive, it had given him this strange trajectory into the mouth of a huge engine of destruction.
- When Paris claims he loves Helen above thought, he is providing piercing insight into the twisted motives behind the adultery that has infected Troy.
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