as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
Do better, or consider hiring people who paint a vivid enough picture with words rather than having to lean on photographers who seem to have an obscene bloodlust.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
This fuels an insatiable anger and bloodlust in Baldur, who favors a brawling fighting style that blends his immense power with the raw impact of his fists.
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James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
The Flyers’ bullying and their fans’ bloodlust became synonymous with the building.
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Rob Rossi,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
The film’s most unsettling scenes connect Hans' murder spree with the bloodlust of the German public, foreshadowing the Nazis’ rise to power just a few years later.
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Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bloodlust
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
This fuels an insatiable anger and bloodlust in Baldur, who favors a brawling fighting style that blends his immense power with the raw impact of his fists.
—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
The Flyers’ bullying and their fans’ bloodlust became synonymous with the building.
—
Rob Rossi,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
The film’s most unsettling scenes connect Hans' murder spree with the bloodlust of the German public, foreshadowing the Nazis’ rise to power just a few years later.
—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bloodlust
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
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Lee learned much about the systemic oppression that Black Americans faced from his first student, Jesse Glover, who had been a victim of police brutality.
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These early precedents in fictional brutality also weaken Thomson’s next point, about literature’s superiority.
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The guy was a sleaze, but there’s a pretty big gap between sleaziness and murderousness.
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The findings can’t be extrapolated to the real world — the scenarios were extreme, with the regimes often facing first strikes or annihilation — but revealed AIs’ skill at strategic reasoning, as well as a certain bloodthirstiness.
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Sometimes the irony turns bitter and, with a typically Eastern European sensibility, highlights the paradoxes of institutions, as well as the madness and meanness born from the pursuit and preservation of power.
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.
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This savagery can last up to a week before the mature larvae fall to the ground.
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While our money would be on The Last Son of Krypton in a main card matchup, Lobo fights dirty with a level of primal savagery that just might put the Big Blue Boy Scout and his cousin down for a few rounds.
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According to the Sheriff’s Office, a judge released Cruz on his own recognizance June 4 following his arraignment on felony animal cruelty charges in Sacramento Superior Court.
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At one point, the narrator, embarrassed by his own act of cruelty, gives a sobbing woman all his money and then leaves her alone in a hotel room.
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Chiarella takes time between bouts of danger to show affection and intimacy that, in defiance of teen-slasher formula, isn’t immediately penalized with sadism.
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Here, animals serve as vessels for our worst impulses, suffering at the point where curiosity turns to sadism, domination to cruelty, and self-interest to neglect.
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The barbarity of the institution, meanwhile, is self-evident—but rarely does an author present its abuses so powerfully and vividly.
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The Emperor’s battle arena, for example, is a marvel of moody set design, its barbarity brought to life by the throngs of people crowding to watch the action from atop its grated roof.
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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