unbloodied

[uhn-bluhd-eed]

adjective

1. not stained or smeared with blood.

   an unbloodied dagger at the scene of the crime.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unbloodied¹

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + bloody ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Sussberg’s white shirt, she reported, remained unbloodied.

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Almost all the corpses were intact and unbloodied, many of their faces and bodies black with soot.

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His balding, gray-bearded head plays the part of Holofernes’s severed one in a tableau based on the biblical tale of Judith — the only one of these mostly unbloodied scenes with a gory body.

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Had we but spoken after my father’s death, he would know that I had seen evidence—the poison vial—that could convict Claudius, bringing a just revenge that would leave Hamlet’s own hand unbloodied.

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My arm was undamaged, the floor unbloodied and free of glass.

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