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
She inherits his reptilian cold-bloodedness, his narcissistic tendencies and his trivia obsession.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2015
It’s their very detachment, what you might call the cold-bloodedness of science, that makes science the killer app.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2015
That level of cold-bloodedness was one of the few genuine surprises in “Grand Guignol.”
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014
Self-control is very often mistaken superficially for cold-bloodedness, just as heartiness is mistaken for big-heartedness.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
