sanguinary

Speech parts

1. sanguinary - Noun

2. sanguinary - Adjective

3. sanguinary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.

Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

The yarrow.

The Sanguinaria.

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Examples

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. Ulysses S. Grant

In the sanguinary struggle with capitalism, the working class cannot refrain from inflicting the last extremity of punishment upon its declared enemies. While the civil war continues, the abolition of the death penalty is impossible. Nikolai Bukharin

Pete is clearly mildly perturbed by this, as so he should be: his faith doesn't have much room for sanguinary magic, unless you count holy communion. Charles Stross

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. Bhagat Singh

I feel that I must attack this creed of blood, which does much to keep up the cruel and sanguinary views of barbarous ages about God and man. Julia Ward Howe

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. Bhagat Singh

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