as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
Adequately conveying Abby’s bloodlust without going beyond what viewers can tolerate had to be a tricky balance, and Mazin (who wrote the episode) and Mylod (the director) managed to find it.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2025
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
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
Noun
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Pellegrino does get into the brutality of the Japanese forces.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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Yet, in the nearly two years since then, the brutality and intensity of Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip have mobilized opposition around the world.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2025
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Known for its savagery and the popularity level of both fighters at the time.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Slaveholders first developed the trope in the 1790s in their representations of the emergent nation of Haiti, framing it as a dangerous site of social experimentation and savagery where Black freedom would inexorably lead to white death.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Perhaps the surprise return of Egghead Vance will turn it into symbol of resistance, seen at every demonstration against the cruelties and greed of the Trump machine.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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Other laws set to take effect on July 1 in Florida include House Bill 255, establishing harsher penalties for animal cruelty, and House Bill 653, setting new aggravating factors when determining whether someone convicted of a capital felony should receive the death penalty.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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All circled the same themes: surveillance, body image, sadism, hyperfemininity, male (heterosexual) desire and women’s obligation to fulfill it.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The book’s a meld of true crime, memoir and social commentary, but with a mission: to shock readers into a deeper understanding of the American Nightmare, ecological devastation entwined with senseless sadism.—
Hamilton Cain,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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As in Squid Game, dystopian drama often plays on the barbarity of entertainment, impossible promises of curing human weakness, and finds salvation in our best qualities: solidarity, compassion, and unity.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
27 June 2025
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Enforcing immigration policy does not have to be inhumane, but the Trump administration is gloating in the very barbarity.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
14 June 2025
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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