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Type Words
Synonyms bloodthirsty, bloody-minded


went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood.
Type Words
Synonyms butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous


this bitter and sanguinary war.

Examples of sanguinary

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Yet for all Gibson's sanguinary attentions, Apocalypto does not fetishize suffering.
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In a few moments our entire line was engaged in a fierce and sanguinary struggle with the enemy.
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Sam Raimi is one of the producers of this risibly sanguinary sword-and-sandal epic, set in CGI.
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Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles.
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The consequences of that savage quarrel run like a sanguinary thread throughout the Trotsky correspondence.
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The idea is not so sanguinary as it sounds.
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Some of the criticism was aimed at his consistently sanguine estimates of a struggle that has grown increasingly sanguinary.
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No less possible is a sanguinary last stand in the streets of Baghdad, leading to a slaughter of innocents as well as of fighting men.
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Then ensued a sanguinary conflict.
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  • Gory: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
  • Bloodthirsty: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
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  • Bloodthirsty; murderous.