blooded

[ bluhd-id ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having blood of a specified kind (used in combination):
warm-blooded animals.
(of horses, cattle, etc.) derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

blooded

/ ˈblʌdɪd /

(of horses, cattle, etc) of good breeding
in combination having blood or temperament as specified
hot-blooded, cold-blooded, warm-blooded, red-blooded, blue-blooded

Origin of blooded¹

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; blood, -ed ³

But it lacked the one ingredient that has largely been absent from this World Cup: cold-blooded finishing in front of goal.

“Show business” was much more a haven for sentimentalists then, not for ironists like Letterman or cold-blooded comics like Leno.

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

Because, of course, red-blooded, white-skinned folks like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Adam Lanza pose no threat at all.

The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.

It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.

How dare you decide in this cold-blooded way whether I am to be called—ah—Tosh—or—ah—Porker!

Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

The Kentucky planter prides himself on the superior quality of tobacco, as well as his famous blooded stock.

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