bloodthirsty
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And as Madame Defarge , who will become the symbol of the revolution’s bloodthirsty overreach, Duran is splendid; she’s a monster, finally, but layered and human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Everybody thinks we are bloodthirsty and we are going out and killing hundreds of foxes, that is not the case," she added.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
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
That adds extra freight to his reminder that Katrina’s tragedy was entirely manmade — a whirlpool of failed levees, systems and common bloodthirsty inhumanity.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
I did not want to imagine what would happen if her true identity were discovered by these bloodthirsty conspirators.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing bloodthirsty
"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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