bloody murder

adverb

Definition of bloody murdernext
as in blatantly

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Recent Examples of bloody murder After a bloody murder sends a high school party into a panic, Winnie ends up saving her brother Jimmy (Aiden Howard) by killing Waters. — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023 The media, Democrats and their NGO allies are crying bloody murder, but most Americans employed in the private sector understand that layoffs are an unpleasant fact of working life. — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025 Donovan’s death leads directly to the ballet company pulling its classic Nutcracker sets out of storage and Noelle being cast as Clara, after all, so in Harris’s mind, all’s well that ends well (with a literally bloody murder). — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025 Two people, including a Port Authority police officer, were left dead and an 86-year-old woman was clinging to life Thursday following a bloody murder-suicide in the Bronx, police sources said. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bloody murder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloody murder
  1. blatantly
  2. clearly
  3. lustily
  4. noisily
  5. vociferously
  6. loudly
  7. boisterously
  8. resoundingly
Adverb
  • Of course, no one bothers with that, even with the content that’s blatantly generated.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2026
  • Ahead of the festival, the director called out the Oscars for being blatantly apolitical this year.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 May 2026
Definition of blatantly
Adverb
  • But the idea of luxury accessories serving as emotional armor amid economic uncertainty clearly resonates with consumers and marketeers capitalizing on the phenomenon.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
  • Haaland clearly came into the World Cup intending to love it.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of clearly
Adverb
  • Tom Cruise sat elbow to elbow with David Beckham; UCLA and Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul Jabbar got a rousing ovation and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was lustily booed.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • Helen wept quietly, believing her world had come to an end, while Alice, always comfortable with attention, cried more lustily.
    — Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of lustily
Adverb
  • Despite that underlying tension, kids play on the street outside while the large family has a dynamic like any other — noisily squabbling, joking, or in the case of the matriarchal grandmother, Mariam (Hiam Abbass), preparing a meal in a kitchen plagued by constant utility outages.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • As Lurie was transitioning into the mayor’s office, union workers were noisily picketing outside several of the largest hotels in San Francisco.
    — J.D. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2026
Definition of noisily
Adverb
  • In a statement, the soccer federation vociferously pushed back.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 June 2026
  • Which helps explain why companies complain vociferously about the absence of these skills in entry-level workers.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of vociferously
Adverb
  • England fans accustomed to the relentless pace of the Premier League have loudly booed hydration breaks at the World Cup, but Thomas Tuchel’s side benefited from them after going down early in a comeback win over the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • On Tuesday night, Denver voters rejected that pitch — as loudly as possible.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of loudly
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  • Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 June 2026
  • These movies now add up to a canon greater than the sum of their boisterously funny, deliriously inventive parts.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 June 2026
Definition of boisterously
Adverb
  • Ignoring the voters’ will If history repeats again, the district court will refuse to enforce the anti-gerrymandering Fair District amendments that voters approved resoundingly 16 years ago.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • The answer, resoundingly, was no.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 21 June 2026
Definition of resoundingly

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