sanguinary
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His Anglican church was the product of sanguinary religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, and he witnessed anti-colonial uprisings throughout Africa.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2021
“When sanguinary conflicts take place in cities so widely separated and within so short a time, the cause is general and not local,” Byrnes contended.
From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019
But such occasional resonances feel more accidental and inconsistent, or at least beside the sanguinary point.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2018
The purpose of clemency is not to open the prison gates and let people out, but ensure, as Alexander Hamilton put it back in 1788, that justice doesn’t “wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2018
I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish’s navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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