bloodthirsty
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Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Justifying why this pile of helplessness would be placed in competition with a group of bloodthirsty adult men might mean we’re focusing on the wrong thing.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
It left some viewers perplexed, as they questioned what a bloodthirsty plant had to do with Christmas.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024
A rare exception was 1960’s “Little Shop of Horrors,” which starred a bloodthirsty plant that feasted on humans and featured Nicholson in a small but memorable role as a pain-loving dental patient.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
A bloodthirsty mosquito whined in my ear, and I had to slap it away for more than half an hour till the tro-tro ground to a halt again.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing bloodthirsty
"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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