cold-bloodedness
Example Sentences
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The soft tissues that would be the most informative about warm- or cold-bloodedness are rarely preserved in fossils, and paleontologists obviously cannot directly measure an extinct animal’s body temperature.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022
The tenaciousness, the risk-taking, the cold-bloodedness and the towering self-confidence — the qualities that make a spymaster — eventually consume their carriers.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2015
She inherits his reptilian cold-bloodedness, his narcissistic tendencies and his trivia obsession.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2015
That level of cold-bloodedness was one of the few genuine surprises in “Grand Guignol.”
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014
Such cold-bloodedness appeared premature and unnatural in a man who could not yet have seen more than five-and-twenty summers.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
