sanguinary

Example Sentences

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Before that sanguinary highlight, you’ll have to endure some awfully laborious setup, starting with a stab-happy 17th-century Japanese prologue that earns the movie its R rating in the first five minutes.

From Los Angeles Times

Otherwise, argued Alexander Hamilton, “justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”

From Washington Post

Even if they are not to blame for the old man’s sanguinary end, you feel confident that they’re guilty of something.

From The New Yorker

“I’m hopeful that this incident will have a sanguinary effect on employees who have not been serious enough about their jobs,” Mendelson said.

From Washington Post

Without “the benign prerogative of pardoning,” Alexander Hamilton wrote later in the Federalist Papers, “justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”

From Washington Post