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bloodthirsty

[ bluhd-thur-stee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

eager to shed blood; murderous:
to capture a bloodthirsty criminal.
Synonyms: pitiless, merciless, bloody, brutal, savage, homicidal
enjoying or encouraging bloodshed or violence, especially as a spectator or clamorous partisan:
the bloodthirsty urgings of the fight fans.

bloodthirsty

/ ˈblʌdˌθɜːstɪ /

First recorded in 1525–35; blood + thirsty

Bloodthirsty calls for revenge have filled Facebook and Twitter.

All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!

The Habsburg army, however, Watson contends, were exceptionally bloodthirsty.

His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad's best hope of stopping the Islamic State.

“ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview.

Maximian, a Pannonian peasant, betrayed the savageness of his nature by his bloodthirsty cruelty.

It was some little time before Clarence Tinling gave any opinion upon this bloodthirsty document.

I always thought,” the latter said, “that pumas were such bloodthirsty animals.

Sheppy has a standing feud with a neighbour's dog that is amusing rather than bloodthirsty.

In Scotland the hag of the south-west wind is similarly a bloodthirsty and fearsome demon.

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