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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sanguinary.

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Examples

  • And of course, once the outline's done, be sure to blot the blood like a calorie-counter blots a pizza, and then display your sanguinous banner across your chest:

    Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion? BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • 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 Samuel Vaknin

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

    Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin

  • 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 Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • 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.

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