as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
It was revived anew, with a bigger bloodlust than before, thanks to this entry to the canon from writer Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven.
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Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Eugenio Martín's thrill ride has an enduring wit, not to mention a bloodlust to match that of Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
But the five-years-long beef is a glimpse of a rap subculture suffocating on its own bloodlust.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
And the appeal of football isn’t only in the bloodlust, the thrill of acrobatic athleticism that ends in a big crash.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Eugenio Martín's thrill ride has an enduring wit, not to mention a bloodlust to match that of Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
But the five-years-long beef is a glimpse of a rap subculture suffocating on its own bloodlust.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
And the appeal of football isn’t only in the bloodlust, the thrill of acrobatic athleticism that ends in a big crash.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
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Syrians are still digesting the systemic brutality of the regime, now that prisons and torture chambers – chief among them Sednaya – have been opened.Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
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The killing of the CEO captivated the nation, both for the brutality of the crime and for the anger and frustration many people expressed about the health care insurance system.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
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The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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By separating the cruelty from the constructive, a company can turn criticism into a catalyst for meaningful growth.Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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The 17-year-old was charged with animal cruelty, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail, according to an arrest affidavit released in late November.Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
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The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
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Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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