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Another word for bloodthirsty

Adjective

  1. Eager for bloodshed

    2. See also:

    help

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Another word for bloodthirsty

Modifier
    2. See also:

    savage

    murderous

    fierce

    ferocious

    cruel

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Sentence Examples

  • I'd kill him! shouted Denisov in a bloodthirsty tone.

  • Even within the Arctic Circle they are in many localities abundant and excessively bloodthirsty during the short summer.

  • From his youth he was intensely bloodthirsty and hostile to the Americans.

  • In proportion to their size they are among the most bloodthirsty of animals, though less so than the weasels.

  • The only really brutal tyrants were Darius II., who was completely dominated by his bloodthirsty wife Parysatis, and Artaxerxes III.

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