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
There’s one big problem facing Smoke, Stack, and their exciting new venture: a bloodthirsty vampire cult.
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
But the new characters, notably Kaitlyn Dever’s bloodthirsty Abby and Jeffrey Wright's powerful, sullen Isaac, don’t feel fully inhabited.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
The trailer shows Powell jumping down elevator shafts, getting shot at, tossing grenades, and giving the finger to the floating cameras that record his progress for the show's bloodthirsty viewers.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
But the new characters, notably Kaitlyn Dever’s bloodthirsty Abby and Jeffrey Wright's powerful, sullen Isaac, don’t feel fully inhabited.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
The trailer shows Powell jumping down elevator shafts, getting shot at, tossing grenades, and giving the finger to the floating cameras that record his progress for the show's bloodthirsty viewers.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodthirsty
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All this was condoned when not encouraged or even led by local and state officials, who funded murderous militias.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Apr. 2025
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The section has also added French director Cardona’s No One Will Know, a huit clos in which the clients and bar staff of a shabby cafe outside Paris enter into a murderous pact when an elderly regular comes in and wins big in the lottery.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.—
Tom Yulsman,
Discover Magazine,
27 Dec. 2022
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The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Dec. 2022
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“Bloodthirsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodthirsty. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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