bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē 
: eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, violence, or killing
Examples of bloodthirsty in a Sentence
the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people
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Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
His films tend to have a David-versus-Goliath quality in their characters and their narratives, particularly his 2019 breakout Bacurau, a genre experiment that imagined what would happen if bloodthirsty outsiders attacked a small rural village.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Here’s another image from the D’Aulaires, a drawing this time, right at the confluence of cute and bloodthirsty so beloved by kids of a certain age.
—Seamus Sullivan
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Her radical friend Anja, however, goes too far, poisoning pig feed with a strange black liquid that gradually turns the pigs into bloodthirsty zombies.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bloodthirsty
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“Bloodthirsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodthirsty. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē
: eager to hurt or kill : cruel
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