bloodily

Adverb

Meaning

In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.

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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. John Banville

Espartero's liberal reforms were then opposed by moderates, and the former general's heavy-handedness caused a series of sporadic uprisings throughout the country from various quarters, all of which were bloodily suppressed. Source: Internet

Historian Kantorowicz described the death as gruesome: "deposed, dethroned, he was flung full length on the ground by the Abbot, confessing his sins, while the reluctant priests beat him bloodily to death. Source: Internet

When he opens his eyes he finds Ralinge and his assistants dead, dispatched bloodily, and Vosill free and in the process of removing her bindings, no indication of how she was freed. Source: Internet

Calderón’s is renewed and reinterpreted in this bloodily funny and strongly meaningful saga, published in this collection of Oscar Mandel’s fiction for the very first time. Source: Internet

Very Good/Very Good. light edge wear to boards and jacket; In the chaos of war, Tom Bedford's son, Danny, has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Source: Internet

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