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sanguinary
Synonyms and Antonyms of sanguinary
eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton
antagonistic, ferocious, fierce, gladiatorial, hostile
aggressive, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, violent
bloodstained, fell, gory, grim
despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful
appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, dovish, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaking, placating, placative, placatory, propitiatory
benign, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted
Synonym Discussion of sanguinary
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- bloody hands
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- the Civil War was America's most sanguinary conflict
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- exceptionally gory, even for a horror movie
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