bloodlust

noun

blood·​lust ˈbləd-ˌləst How to pronounce bloodlust (audio)
: desire for bloodshed

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The moment is touching, melancholic, and quietly powerful—underscoring that Sinners is about more than bloodlust. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 Herein lies the timeless beauty of Twilight, and of all the other vampire movies and TV shows shamelessly built on audience thirst (many of which will be celebrated over the next week on vulture dot com): There’s just something about wildly infeasible bloodlust that keeps us coming back for more. Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 1 May 2025 This has been in service of no one, but the bloodlust of our state government. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 The stuffy 19th-century British public was frankly terrified of the prospect of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphed into bloodlust in just one act. E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bloodlust

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bloodlust was in 1848

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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodlust. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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