bloodstained
Americanadjective
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stained with blood.
a bloodstained knife.
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guilty of murder, slaughter, or bloodshed.
adjective
Etymology
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Example Sentences
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The Pope also condemned "an endless cycle of destabilisation and death" in a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon that had been gripped by insurgency for nearly a decade.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Gory giveaway: A replica bloodstained jersey from a baseball great.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
Olsen cut the liver into small pieces, offering it with bloodstained fingers to friends and family gathered around the table.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
When the New York Times profiled Ms. Rodríguez as a “moderate,” a backlash erupted: Thousands on X ridiculed the paper for whitewashing her bloodstained record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
Also there are men fighting, or about to fight, looking clean and noble, not dirty and bloodstained and smelly the way they must have looked.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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