bloodless

adjective

blood·less ˈbləd-ləs

Synonyms of bloodless next

: deficient in or free from blood

: not accompanied by loss or shedding of blood

a bloodless victory

: lacking in spirit or vitality

: lacking in human feeling

bloodless statistics

bloodlessly adverb

bloodlessness noun

Examples of bloodless in a Sentence

They took control of the government in a bloodless coup. Her speeches are dull and bloodless. a bunch of bloodless numbers and statistics His face was bloodless with fear.

Recent Examples on the Web At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem. —

Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023 After the antigovernment Maidan revolution in 2014 in Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin moved to annex Crimea in a bloodless operation enabled by the popular local rejection of the Maidan revolution and by the defection of Crimean elites to the Russian state. —

Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023 At the same time, Kearney’s bloodless analysis can invite subversion of the sort that Baum might encourage. —

Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 But ‘Cherish’ is a bloodless affair, a sickly-sweet melody backing up a somewhat creepy lyric about fixating too hard on a girl. —

Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2023 That movie earned a bloodless $26 million globally. —

Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023 The miraculous bloodless end of Soviet totalitarian Communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 were not bloodless after all. —

Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023 Moon eventually made peace with his neighbors, in part by offering above-market prices for their catch, but this frequently antagonistic incursion helped spur the meteoric rise in overfishing, and in this retelling feels strangely bloodless. —

Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Rated PG-13 for largely bloodless violence. —

Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 June 2023 See More

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