bloodthirsty

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To this hour they say there that I--bloodthirsty, coward dog that I am--flogged a sailor, one Mungo Maxwell, to death.

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  1. adjective Eager to shed blood.
  2. adjective Characterized by great carnage.

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  • One may either hulloo on the inevitable, and be called a bloodthirsty progressive; or one may try to gain time and be called a bloodthirsty reactionary. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • He had carried on a not too bloodthirsty--at times--feud with Ham Brooks for a long while, and frequently suspected himself of getting the worst end of it. —  175 - The Pure Evil
  • The Malays are invariably characterised as treacherous and bloodthirsty, and the Dyaks have only recently ceased to think head-taking an absolute necessity. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • Oddly enough, the most bloodthirsty were the banker and the professor. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper
  • Most of the warriors he introduces are depicted as crafty, bloodthirsty, and merciless. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
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  1. from blood + thirsty; = Dutch bloeddorstig = German blutdürstig = Danish Swedish blodtörstig.
 

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