bloodthirsty
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"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
Jack O’Connell, Lola Kirke and Peter Dreimanis — the actors who terrorized the juke joint as bloodthirsty vampires in the movie — also snaked their way onto the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
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
Behind every tree Penelope imagined she saw the eyes of bloodthirsty cannibals, glinting hungrily in the dark.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing bloodthirsty
"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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