as in brutality
the desire to kill or to see people killed
warriors inflamed by bloodlust
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Recent Examples of bloodlust
Prequel Dexter: Original Sin, featuring a young Dexter eventually succumbing to his bloodlust, recently aired its finale.
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 22 Feb. 2025
There’s a calming vibe to cleaning house, even if the means of doing so happens to be carving through a sea of people in bloodlust.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 22 Feb. 2025
There’s a calming vibe to cleaning house, even if the means of doing so happens to be carving through a sea of people in bloodlust.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.
—David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlust
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Set in Los Angeles in 2018, with police brutality and the early stages of the Black Lives Matter movement very firmly part of its zeitgeist, Forever begins with Keisha Clark (Lovie Simone) and Justin Edwards (Michael Cooper Jr.) unexpectedly reconnecting at a New Year’s Eve party.—
Ebonie Walker,
Refinery29,
12 May 2025
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The Israeli government is indeed openly promising to commit horrific crimes against Palestinian civilians — brutality even above what the world has seen for the past year and a half.—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
12 May 2025
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The men who abducted Paiva were indicted by federal prosecutors in 2014—but they have been protected by an amnesty law, passed as the regime was coming to an end, which has effectively kept the country from reckoning with the savagery of military rule.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Anderson loves visceral, gut-punch action, and in the past he’s brought to fairly generic stories an invigorating sense of menace and savagery.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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His father, Colin Gray, 54, has been indicted on 29 felonies including two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children.—
Devon M. Sayers,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
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Is the austerity of her work simply regurgitated cruelty?—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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But any idealism he’s held onto is now coupled with sadism.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
5 May 2025
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Still, the sadism of the show’s fictional world finds ample comparisons in our own.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2025
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Angle was just too good, too fast, and too pre-equipped to allow Lesnar to gain a real advantage, meaning that Lesnar had to rely on his powerhouse barbarity to come out on top.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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Putin’s quasi-genocidal barbarities in Ukraine and Xi’s industrial-scale repression in Xinjiang threaten to restore a world of autocratic impunity and rampant atrocity.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlust. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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