Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed, murderous.
The word 'bloodthirsty' is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it to describe something or someone that has a strong desire for violence or bloodshed, often without justification. For example: He was a bloodthirsty ruler who had no mercy for anyone who opposed him.
Salmond, who took to the stage at the Glasgow Science Centre on the south side of the Clyde with his trusted deputy Sturgeon, deployed ambitious – though rather less bloodthirsty – language.
One of the show's stars, Peter Dinklage, performed an ode to his own survival on the bloodthirsty drama called Still Going Strong, while actor Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, sang a reggae anthem called Rastafarian Targaryen.
"And Abu Bakr is the most bloodthirsty of all.
Then again, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that the contents of the programme have now permanently imprinted on his young brain, dooming him to a thankless life as a bloodthirsty despot with a number of profound entitlement problems.
Mirren told the Observer that she agreed with the playwright David Hare's recent complaints about the bloodthirsty nature of most drama on British TV, saying there was a clear sexual divide when it came to the corpses.
It was becoming the fashion, then, to rewrite fairytales, removing anything too bloodthirsty and prettying up the endings, and my parents were worried that all the skeletons and gouged-out eyes in Grimm's would warp my mind.
Democrats, while somewhat hamstrung by their necessary embrace of the administration, are probably more bound by their newfound foreign policy muscularity; their success at being as bloodthirsty as any Republican when it comes to "enemies" seems to have intoxicated former critics of executive abuses – a form of philosophical roid rage – the most significant of these defectors being Obama himself.
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