(a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
(a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
(a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
(a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
(a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
(v. t.) To stain with blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(2) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
(3) 83 women aborted within 24 hours; 6 women who had not aborted within 24 hours were given Pitocin in order to stimulate contractions; the amniotic fluid was bloody in 2 patients, and the procedure was termianted; 1 patient did not respond at all to the procedure initially, but returned in 1 week and had a successful abortion at that time.
(4) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(5) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(6) SW: Yes she bloody did, did you not hear that pause?
(7) A bloody nasogastric aspirate is believed to imply active upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, while a nonbloody yellow-green nasogastric aspirate that contains duodenal secretions suggests the absence of bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz.
(8) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(9) Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."
(10) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(11) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
(12) Karmani described Respect as "the naughty children" of Bradford – "and with parents like that, what do you bloody expect?"
(13) Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight.
(14) Even as the sounds of missiles around Şemdinli abate, news of bloody clashes elsewhere in the region keeps locals on their toes.
(15) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(16) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
(17) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
(18) Well you hadn't brought it up which is a bloody miracle after 20 minutes.
(19) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(20) The major symptoms of intussusception were bloody diarrhoea (87.17%), vomiting.
Godforsaken
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A collection of odd people assembling in some godforsaken place to set off on a journey together.
(2) It means: how soon can I leave this godforsaken party without it looking rude?
(3) Idomeni, at the best of times, is a godforsaken place: bleak, barren and infused with a melancholy typical of remote border posts.
(4) Oh look, it's in Westminster, at the BBC, in the SWP, in the Catholic church, in the police force, in care homes and even in the godforsaken Lib Dem party.
(5) You are the ones who created this godforsaken racist system by using your circumstantial power and privilege 400 years ago to institutionalize white supremacy.
(6) "It's hard to imagine we could get any crueller than taking people in the dead of night, turning their boats around, dropping them off at some godforsaken place, somewhere off the coast of Indonesia.
(7) The enforced grave digger Michael Podchlebnik, and Rivka Yosselevska, her family shot in some godforsaken quarry, and Yehiel Katzetnik, who faints in court, and legions of fellow travellers – 14-year-old witnesses to Auschwitz or to the grim cleansing of Paris – and then comes the grand guignol, the footage from the camps.
(8) You may now be in the south and may not have lived in Sheffield for more than a quarter of a century, but when you go and watch United at some godforsaken third division ground, you are still part of Sheffield and Sheffield is still part of you.
(9) No, writes its nominator Grace Kline, who suffered from the village's "godforsaken" tedium and believes the poet deliberately set his work "a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (the correct title) because he actively disliked the place.
(10) But then he would sit next to you in some godforsaken canteen at some conference and ask you about your kids.
(11) Photograph: Charlie Skelton for the Guardian The Bilderberg conference was last here in Chantilly, at the exact same godforsaken spot, back in 2008 – which, like 2012, was a US election year, and the moment the current economic woes really started hitting the fan.