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
New boogeyman In the South Africa of the Trumpist fever dream, in which a bloodthirsty Black majority seeks vengeance against Whites by taking their land and even their lives, EFF would be wildly popular.
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Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
The Last of Us season 2 ends with a bloodthirsty Ellie coming face-to-face with Abby, the woman who killed her ersatz father figure.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
He was eventually lynched by a bloodthirsty mob after his death sentence had been commuted by a governor who sensed a miscarriage of justice.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Still, Strindberg sticks to the canon of European classics like a tick: ugly, bloodthirsty, alive.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
The Last of Us season 2 ends with a bloodthirsty Ellie coming face-to-face with Abby, the woman who killed her ersatz father figure.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
He was eventually lynched by a bloodthirsty mob after his death sentence had been commuted by a governor who sensed a miscarriage of justice.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Still, Strindberg sticks to the canon of European classics like a tick: ugly, bloodthirsty, alive.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodthirsty
Adjective
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So, the whole thing just seems naive from people who’ve been oppressed by this murderous regime for 46 years.—
Fiction Non Fiction
July 3,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
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But if a surprise pregnancy isn’t the moment for a young man to find moral purpose, surely a surprise pregnancy inside a murderous game of death should be, right?—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2025
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As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.—
Tom Yulsman,
Discover Magazine,
27 Dec. 2022
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The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Dec. 2022
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