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bloodless

[ bluhd-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

without blood:
bloodless surgery.
very pale:
a bloodless face.
free from bloodshed; accomplished without bloodshed:
a bloodless victory; a bloodless coup.
spiritless; without vigor, zest, or energy:
a dull, insipid, bloodless young man.
without emotion or feeling; cold-hearted:
bloodless data.

bloodless

/ ˈblʌdlɪs /

1175–1225; Middle English blodles, Old English blōdlēas. See blood, -less

He seems fleshless, bloodless; he might almost be a black man's parody of how a clean-cut white man moves.

At which point it becomes clear that we have entered a minimalist, bloodless horror movie.

Then I felt an arm upon my shoulder, and Boris turned a bloodless face to mine.

His idea was to become modern, efficient and bloodless by using lethal injection.

Winningly, though, Weaver was hardly some bloodless accountant.

Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.

The baron's pallid face looked more bloodless, his accent was fiercer, and his countenance more ruffianly as he uttered all this.

Tremulously he drew the bow across the middle string, his bloodless fingers moving slowly up and down.

She traced her sin in its shrunken face, its thread-like limbs, its sick nerves and bloodless veins.

So he went on after the bloodless thing that had escaped; and in the way he met the appearance of his 285 mother, and she wept.

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