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bloodthirsty

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blood·thirst·y  (bldthûrst)
adj.
1. Eager to shed blood.
2. Characterized by great carnage.
bloodthirsti·ly adv.
bloodthirsti·ness n.
bloodthirsty
Adjective
[-thirstier, -thirstiest] taking pleasure in bloodshed or violence
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Adj.1.bloodthirsty - 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
bloody-minded, sanguinary
bloody - having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
bloodthirsty
adjective cruel, savage, brutal, vicious, ruthless, ferocious, murderous, heartless, inhuman, merciless, cut-throat, remorseless, warlike, barbarous, pitiless
Translations
bloodthirsty [ˈblʌdθəːstɪ] adj → sanguinario
bloodthirsty [ˈblʌdθəːstɪ] adj → sanguinaire
bloodthirsty [ˈblʌdθəːstɪ] adj → blutrünstig
bloodthirsty [ˈblʌdθəːstɪ] adj → assetato/a di sangue


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as to affirm, for instance, following Buckle, that through civilisation mankind becomes softer, and consequently less bloodthirsty and less fitted for warfare.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The truth must have been that, all unversed in the arts of the wily Greek, the deceiver of gods, the lover of strange women, the evoker of bloodthirsty shades, I yet longed for the beginning of my own obscure Odyssey, which, as was proper for a modern, should unroll its wonders and terrors beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Mong the motley-speckled fierce creatures, Shouldest rove, sinful-sound and fine-coloured, With longing lips smacking, Blessedly mocking, blessedly hellish, blessedly bloodthirsty, Robbing, skulking, lying--roving:--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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