Bloodthirsty
['blʌdθɜːstɪ] or ['blʌdθɝsti]
Definition
(adj.) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; 'bloody-minded tyrants'; 'bloodthirsty yells'; 'went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood'-G.W.Johnson .
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Definition
(a.) Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gory, bloody, murderous, inhuman, cruel, ruthless, savage
ANT:Humane, kind, merciful
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Examples
- His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- My introduction to these cruel and bloodthirsty people was but an index to the scenes I witnessed almost daily while with them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We jumped at the offer, for we were already sick of these bloodthirsty doings, and we saw that there would be worse before it was done. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And what's more,' he added, suddenly turning bloodthirsty, 'I mean to have it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If she could but arouse her, their combined efforts might possibly avail to beat back the fierce and bloodthirsty intruder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- With denunciations of bloodthirsty anti-national bodyguards, are heard dark growlings against a queenly name. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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