(a.) Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is going to happen to the thousands of Yazidis besieged on Mount Sinjar by the bloodthirsty fanatics of Islamic State, or to the ancient Christian communities being systematically driven out of their homes ?
(2) The intimate and atmospheric theatre will offer a glimpse of how audiences originally experienced the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy when it was first performed by the King's Men – Shakepeare's own company.
(3) I like it, though not as much as La Marseillaise, which is the most uplifting anthem I know despite the bloodthirsty lyrics.
(4) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(5) But a brief look at the man’s more bloodthirsty side, as well as discussions with other North Koreans who hate his brutal regime, persuade them to proceed as planned.
(6) The slaughter of the Mytileneans, the extraction of a pound of flesh; not all debates have such visceral and bloodthirsty subject matter.
(7) He said he couldn't eat sea horses because they were friendly and never did anyone any harm, this as opposed to those devious, bloodthirsty lambs whose legs we so regularly roast with rosemary and new potatoes.
(8) Yet almost the exact opposite of what he writes about the mutability of human nature is the case: who among us, observing the absolutely reliable proclivity humans have for killing each other in the name of abstract ideas, can fail to conclude there’s a streak of bloodthirstiness running through our natures like BRIGHTON through rock?
(9) This document is a counterweight to claims that Hamas is an irrational, fanatical and bloodthirsty group intent on murdering all Jews.
(10) He also delved into El Animal's bloodthirsty reputation.
(11) These comments may seem bloodthirsty, barbaric even, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Indian public is sick to death of traditional attitudes to rape in their country.
(12) Today’s continental wars may not be bloodthirsty any more, but they display the same chauvinist intransigence.
(13) With more than 450 works, including sculptures by Rodin and paintings by Degas, David and Munch, the museum has sought to use art to trace attitudes to crime, punishment and rehabilitation from the first bloodthirsty days of the revolution.
(14) Al-Khalifa [the rulers of Bahrain] will definitely pay the price for that and their bloodthirsty regime will be toppled,” warned Suleimani, who heads the Guards’ elite Quds force and is seen as the ruthless face of Iran’s strategic reach across the Middle East.
(15) The fabulous Jennifer Lawrence continues to do her damnedest to keep this long-running dystopian saga’s head above water, but ever since story-planners bid a sad farewell to the terrifyingly bloodthirsty Arena in 2013’s Catching Fire and began exploring the future dystopian nation of Panem in excruciatingly pointless detail, the whole thing has gone downhill.
(16) "Besides the pleasure of seeing the GC contenders sipping champagne and smoking cigars on their bicycles and getting a well-deserved break after 20 days of racing, the final finish is such an bloodthirsty contest among the sprinters that I think this stage is the perfect combination of pomp and ceremony and gladiatorial battle.
(17) Mexican police have captured a former primary school teacher who became the head of one of the country’s most bizarre and bloodthirsty drug-trafficking groups, putting an end to a flamboyant criminal career that stood out in a country where underworld bosses have traditionally sought to avoid the spotlight.
(18) That’s what I want to do because we are all in this together and, frankly, we would all be the victims of any terrorist attack here in Australia and that’s why it’s so absolutely important that we do whatever we can to prevent it from happening.” He said the overwhelming majority of Australian Muslims had “no truck whatsoever with the misguided fanatics, with the bloodthirsty extremists”.
(19) The famously bloodthirsty boss of Mexico's most notoriously violent drug cartel has been captured by Mexican marines without a shot being fired, authorities have said.
(20) Against such a backdrop, this 16-minute video, which chronicles the group’s rise over a decade and illustrates its bloodthirsty ways, was intended to make a statement – that battlefield woes don’t win wars.
Sanguineous
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with blood; sanguine.
(a.) Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.
(a.) Blood-red; crimson.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(2) Ministers are sanguine, expecting the controversy to die down once the bill becomes law, even if they are concerned at the way in which the rightwing commentariat has lined up against the bill.
(3) The article points out the possibilities and limitations of combining a) ascending phlebography of the leg and pelvis with peripheral venous pressure measurement (phlebodynamometry) and b) visualisation of the veins of the pelvis and vena cava inferior with central sanguinous venous pressure measurement (CP).
(4) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
(5) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
(6) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
(7) The initially sanguine expectations regarding the practical use of recombinant DNA research, for instance in the production of biologically important substances by bacteria, will therefore possibly not be realized at short notice.
(8) The sera from 2.028 blood donors were screened by all those techniques, as well as 105 known sera, used as references (87 HBS antigen positive sera with different titers, 18 HBS antigen negative sera) and coming from 4 origins: NIH-Bethesda, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
(9) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
(10) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(11) Cooze and the trust’s chairman, Phil Sumbler, say they knew the other shareholders would sell at some point and are sanguine about them making so much money.
(12) We need to keep cool heads as the market heats up.” Carney has been less sanguine over the state of Britain’s economy and earlier this week sent clear hints to financial markets that interest rates would be held at their record low of 0.5% for many months to come against the backdrop of a weaker world economy and a slowdown in the UK.
(13) Weaknesses are being exploited by firms to reduce their tax burdens.” While the proposed new rules could run into opposition from national EU governments that have to endorse the package, Moscovici sounded sanguine that there would be quick approval, enabling the mandatory and automatic exchange of information on tax rulings to come into effect by the end of next year.
(14) David can afford to be sanguine about his brother's choice of career, however, because he remains the more senior figure after making Question Time his own.
(15) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
(16) Although he couldn’t be described as sanguine about the reality of representing himself – “I get minor panic attacks just being in the same room as my ex” – he does believe it’s possible to do a decent job on your own behalf in court.
(17) The result is that, once again, the US and Britain have persuaded themselves of an ambitious course of action – weakening or even breaking the Putin-Assad link – the results of which other allies are less sanguine about.
(18) Personally I thought the Gomez take (cited in an mlssoccer.com story ) was about the most sanguine on it: I love it – I love it.
(19) Watery, serous, serosanguineous, and sanguineous discharges are surgically significant; while they are most often caused by intraductal papillomas or fibrocystic disease, they can be due to cancer or a precancerous mastopathy.
(20) Matthew Taylor, the former chief adviser on strategy to Tony Blair, is more sanguine about the chances of making the pitch "Brown in adversity".