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bloody

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1. bloody - Noun

2. bloody - Adjective

3. bloody - Verb

4. bloody - Adverb

5. bloody - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

To stain with blood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. George R. R. Martin

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. Alfred Hitchcock

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. Andrew Jackson

Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. Wendy Cope

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. Emil Cioran

A white tooth has a bloody root. African Proverb

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