bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē 
: eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, violence, or killing
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the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people
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When his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness.
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
Set in 1991 Miami, 15 years before the original show, Dexter: Original Sin follows Dexter as his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Republicans have constructed a world around Trump’s delusions, in which Mexicans are bloodthirsty invaders, Democrats are Communists, and the 2020 election was stolen.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Evans, a noted historian of modern Germany, complicates earlier portrayals of these figures as either bloodthirsty psychopaths or the inevitable product of historical forces.
—The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
Set in 1991 Miami, 15 years before the original show, Dexter: Original Sin follows Dexter as his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Republicans have constructed a world around Trump’s delusions, in which Mexicans are bloodthirsty invaders, Democrats are Communists, and the 2020 election was stolen.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Evans, a noted historian of modern Germany, complicates earlier portrayals of these figures as either bloodthirsty psychopaths or the inevitable product of historical forces.
—The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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bloodthirsty
adjective
blood·thirsty
ˈbləd-ˌthər-stē
: eager to hurt or kill : cruel
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