as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
There’s a calming vibe to cleaning house, even if the means of doing so happens to be carving through a sea of people in bloodlust.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Perhaps Knock is unsettling because he is being brainwashed by Orlok to view his inhumane bloodlust as his salvation.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Perhaps Knock is unsettling because he is being brainwashed by Orlok to view his inhumane bloodlust as his salvation.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
Noun
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But hopefully his brutality would be even more intense because of his kindness.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2025
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The speed, brutality, and clandestine manner in which these children were deported is beyond unconscionable, and every official responsible for it should be held accountable.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The men who abducted Paiva were indicted by federal prosecutors in 2014—but they have been protected by an amnesty law, passed as the regime was coming to an end, which has effectively kept the country from reckoning with the savagery of military rule.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Anderson loves visceral, gut-punch action, and in the past he’s brought to fairly generic stories an invigorating sense of menace and savagery.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s a great line: Honesty without compassion equals cruelty.—
Jayson Jenks,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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In each of these films, cruelty commingles with tenderness, and hideous acts take place against backdrops of often stunning natural beauty.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Still, the sadism of the show’s fictional world finds ample comparisons in our own.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2025
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The incident allegedly occurred between two consenting adults during what appears to be bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism — more commonly referred to as BDSM.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Putin’s quasi-genocidal barbarities in Ukraine and Xi’s industrial-scale repression in Xinjiang threaten to restore a world of autocratic impunity and rampant atrocity.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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