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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Hate and rationalization of all the provenances of brutality.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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The case has drawn national attention to issues of police brutality and racial bias, particularly in how law enforcement engages with individuals with disabilities.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The men who abducted Paiva were indicted by federal prosecutors in 2014—but they have been protected by an amnesty law, passed as the regime was coming to an end, which has effectively kept the country from reckoning with the savagery of military rule.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Anderson loves visceral, gut-punch action, and in the past he’s brought to fairly generic stories an invigorating sense of menace and savagery.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Woodland police detectives on Tuesday arrested Christian Jacobo, 22, on suspicion of murder and willful cruelty toward a child causing death, police officials said in a Friday news release.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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But what’s even creepier is Remmick’s invitation to the holdouts to join them, promising an escape from dehumanizing cruelty into a fellowship that offers an eternal life of freedom and enlightenment.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 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
Noun
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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 21 Apr. 2025.
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