sanguinous

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Rugova misled his people into sanguinous devastation by declaring the "Kosovo Republic" prematurely.

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  1. Same as sanguinary. It is no desertless office to discover that subtle and insatiate beast [the wolf]; to pull the sheepskin of hypocrisy over his ears; and to expose his forming malice and sanguinous cruelty to men's censure and detestation. Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. xlii.

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  • Rugova misled his people into sanguinous devastation by declaring the "Kosovo Republic" prematurely. —  Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
  • A vicious secret police, a burgeoning military, a new constitution to legalize his sanguinous regime conspired with a global economic crisis to make him a hated figure, even by Serb —  Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
  • July look, and the Champ-de-Mars is multitudinous with men: but the jubilee-huzzahing has become Bedlam-shrieking, of terror and revenge; not blessing of Talleyrand, or any blessing, but cursing, imprecation and shrill wail; our cannon-salvoes are turned to sharp shot; for swinging of incense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sanguinous Drapeau-Rouge. —  The French Revolution
  • Perhaps securing such a sponsor was a lost cause to start with (though the KLA succeeded where Rugova failed) - but then Rugova misled his people into sanguinous devastation by declaring the \ "Kosovo Republic\" prematurely. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. = Italian sanguinoso, from Middle Latin sanguinosus, full of blood, from Latin sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sanguine. Cf. sanguineous.
 

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