bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē 
: eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, violence, or killing
Examples of bloodthirsty in a Sentence
the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people
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There’s one big problem facing Smoke, Stack, and their exciting new venture: a bloodthirsty vampire cult.
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
But the new characters, notably Kaitlyn Dever’s bloodthirsty Abby and Jeffrey Wright's powerful, sullen Isaac, don’t feel fully inhabited.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
But the new characters, notably Kaitlyn Dever’s bloodthirsty Abby and Jeffrey Wright's powerful, sullen Isaac, don’t feel fully inhabited.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
The trailer shows Powell jumping down elevator shafts, getting shot at, tossing grenades, and giving the finger to the floating cameras that record his progress for the show's bloodthirsty viewers.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bloodthirsty
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“Bloodthirsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodthirsty. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē
: eager to hurt or kill : cruel
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