as in murderous
eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people
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Recent Examples of bloodthirsty
Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
But while some viewers were eager for the hyper-violent spectacle of the UFC, other people and institutions regarded its lack of weight classes and rules as barbaric and bloodthirsty.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
But whereas that world could be characterized, at times, by macho one-upmanship that felt almost bloodthirsty, Esperantists like Jurobola were committed to a hazy vision of peace.
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Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
The character of Dracula was fictional, but the name derives from a nickname given to Vlad the Impaler, ruler of Wallachia between 1456–1462, who was described as a ruthless and bloodthirsty leader.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
But while some viewers were eager for the hyper-violent spectacle of the UFC, other people and institutions regarded its lack of weight classes and rules as barbaric and bloodthirsty.
—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
But whereas that world could be characterized, at times, by macho one-upmanship that felt almost bloodthirsty, Esperantists like Jurobola were committed to a hazy vision of peace.
—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
The character of Dracula was fictional, but the name derives from a nickname given to Vlad the Impaler, ruler of Wallachia between 1456–1462, who was described as a ruthless and bloodthirsty leader.
—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodthirsty
Adjective
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Maybe Othello was primed and ready to be worked into a murderous rage.
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Pure white cloth, born in the murderous toil of slavery, formed in debilitating factory conditions, and finished through the agony of Sicilian children, was bleached in more ways than one.
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The Yellow Death has disfigured the population, and soldiers in white-and-red tunics serve the savage Duke of Tviot.
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Josefowicz, in her decathlon of a performance, brought Ligeti’s savage discontinuities to the surface.
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“Bloodthirsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodthirsty. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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