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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The Last of Us season 2 ends with a bloodthirsty Ellie coming face-to-face with Abby, the woman who killed her ersatz father figure.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
He was eventually lynched by a bloodthirsty mob after his death sentence had been commuted by a governor who sensed a miscarriage of justice.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Still, Strindberg sticks to the canon of European classics like a tick: ugly, bloodthirsty, alive.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
He was eventually lynched by a bloodthirsty mob after his death sentence had been commuted by a governor who sensed a miscarriage of justice.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Still, Strindberg sticks to the canon of European classics like a tick: ugly, bloodthirsty, alive.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Republicans have painted their deportation push as a commonsense measure being obstructed by out-of-touch liberal élites siding with bloodthirsty criminals.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
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bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē
: eager to hurt or kill : cruel
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