as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
There’s a calming vibe to cleaning house, even if the means of doing so happens to be carving through a sea of people in bloodlust.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Perhaps Knock is unsettling because he is being brainwashed by Orlok to view his inhumane bloodlust as his salvation.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Perhaps Knock is unsettling because he is being brainwashed by Orlok to view his inhumane bloodlust as his salvation.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
Noun
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Featuring works by renowned photojournalists and archival footage, the exhibit serves as a record of war crimes committed eight decades apart yet eerily similar in brutality.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That frenzied feeding in the churning water, the savagery and pointlessness of appetite.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The savagery of the satire and the humor of the animation, modeled after Feiffer’s drawings, make this cartoon as funny as a Mark Twain story.—
Jeremy Fassler,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
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On Wednesday morning, David Reid, 28, of Winsted turned himself in at police headquarters and was arrested on an outstanding warrant charging him with one count of cruelty to animals.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
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Kelly Walker, 29, is charged with child abuse, cruelty to animals and the killing and torture of an animal.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The incident allegedly occurred between two consenting adults during what appears to be bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism — more commonly referred to as BDSM.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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After reporters used a 1987 White House photo opportunity to shout questions to Reagan about the Iran-Contra scandal, Simpson accused them of sadism.—
Alistair Bell,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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Putin’s quasi-genocidal barbarities in Ukraine and Xi’s industrial-scale repression in Xinjiang threaten to restore a world of autocratic impunity and rampant atrocity.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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