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
His bloodthirsty crew has turned their tools on humans, transforming meat hooks and chainsaws into instruments of terror.
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Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
But all were gleefully lapped up by tried-and-true slasher fans and a new wave of bloodthirsty teenage audiences.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
But when his seedy neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), skips town and leaves him with a key that unlocks unknown valuables, Hank becomes the unwitting target of bloodthirsty gangsters.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
The first part of Wednesday season 2 ended with macabre revelations involving covert experiments, bloodthirsty zombies, and more than a few corpses.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
But all were gleefully lapped up by tried-and-true slasher fans and a new wave of bloodthirsty teenage audiences.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
But when his seedy neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), skips town and leaves him with a key that unlocks unknown valuables, Hank becomes the unwitting target of bloodthirsty gangsters.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
The first part of Wednesday season 2 ended with macabre revelations involving covert experiments, bloodthirsty zombies, and more than a few corpses.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodthirsty
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Those settlers managed to make an underground river with murderous maggots on unstable terrain into a tourist attraction in record time.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The stories of the state's historic lodges are full of resilience, overcoming natural and economic disasters, and in one case, a brush with a murderous gang of bank robbers.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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McBride sets the political context for Swift’s savage indignation by noting that 1727–1729 saw three successive harvest failures in Ireland.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
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The singer went viral at Monday night’s show for her seemingly savage reaction to Tori Kelly and Muni Long’s tribute performance.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Bloodthirsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodthirsty. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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