bloodthirstiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodthirstiness
Noun
  • There is very obviously no excuse for the kinds of posts and commentary Tyler was known for early in his career, but the internet is fueled by bloodlust, not justice.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The media entertains these questions, in an effort to intellectualize the ideologies underpinning the cult’s bloodlust.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Being tied to the mast of a regime defined by cruelty and graft is a problem of another magnitude entirely.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • After shifting power to the people—like a year-plus bus boycott can do, for example—and getting the government to lessen its corruption, cruelty, injustice or violence, defending those gains is a must.
    Michael Shank, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Guardsmen in McPherson Square, ferried there by U.S. Park Service personnel, seemed a world removed from crime and savagery and scum.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amid all the barbarity for barbarity’s sake, Jonsson carries the film with a deep well of unspoken regret.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Netanyahu is the excuse for staying silent about Israeli barbarity in Palestine.
    Uriel Kon September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The series begins before Gein has ever killed, in 1945, as dawning awareness of death camps in Europe fills the air with sadism and conspiracy thinking.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival—the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.
    Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Biden was slow to react to Netanyahu's growing brutality and, as Harris says in her book, failed to show sufficient empathy for the plight of the Gazans.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The movie begins with a 10-year-old Michael already showing the brutality for which The Shape was known, then flashes forward 15 years to an adult Michael (Tyler Mane) pursuing his younger sister, Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton).
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Bloodthirstiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodthirstiness. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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