When craving for respect expresses itself in casual slaughter there seems to be an absence of proportion.

He also saw Moss's uprisen population of native Salka converging on the capital from the Little Fen and the Great Fen, making casual slaughter of humans as they rejoiced that a new era had begun.

Asking the others to put the bodies on ceremonial display, Horatio promises to explain the whole story truthfully, Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause.

Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella's casual slaughter of their lives, and at last he rose in revolt.

From occasional drives to Missouri, Louisiana, or even Illinois, or the casual slaughter of cattle for their hides, the demand for beef in the eastern cities lifted the price per head to ten or more times its former value.

During the three decades Fernando has been away, his picturesque native city has curdled into the cocaine capital of the Western world, plagued with rampant carjackings, kidnappings and casual drive-by slaughter.

The practicalities of this would support the chroniclers' tales of sexual abuse of the slaves and casual slaughter of unsalable encumbrances:

So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, And in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

Reith had not expected such casual and perfunctory slaughter.

He is quickly angered by the casual slaughter of civilians or unarmed military personnel by his enemies.