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adjective

Bloody adj.

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. "Some bloody passion shakes your very frame."

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. (Vulgar)

verb

Bloody v. t. (past & past part. bloodied; pres. part. bloodying) To stain with blood.

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"Bloody" Quotes from Famous Books

... edition of this pamphlet, or rather, on the same day on which it came out, the King's Speech made its appearance in this city. Had the spirit of prophecy directed the birth of this production, it could not have brought it forth, at a more seasonable juncture, or a more necessary time. The bloody mindedness of the one, shew the necessity of pursuing the doctrine of the other. Men read by way of revenge. And the Speech, instead of terrifying, prepared a way for ...

— Common Sense • Thomas Paine

... made by a committee of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, of London, demonstrated, on the contrary, that "in drowned animals not only were all the air passages choked with frothy fluid, more or less bloody, but that both lungs were highly gorged with blood, so that they were heavy, dark colored, and pitted on pressure, and on being cut exuded an abundance of blood-tinged fluid with many air bubbles in it." Dr. R.L. Bowles[1] also holds that the lungs ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various

... Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell marks of many a bloody fielde; Yet armes till that time did he never wield. His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield: Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt. Faerie ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

... difficulties of settlement, from the existence of a less numerous native population, were not so great. It is not necessary here to follow the complicated history of New Zealand in later years, which unfortunately comprises several bloody ...

— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook

... crashing chairs and tables to the floor, and lunged against the bar. The Ramblin' Kid's gun fell from its scabbard at the side of the brass foot-rail. Sabota's eyes glared down into the face of the man he was choking to death—gleaming with the ferocity of an animal gone mad—Awhile bloody foam spewed from his bleeding lips. The cowboy's face was beginning to flush a terrible purple as the breath was ...

— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman

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