Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being bloody.
- noun Disposition to shed blood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being bloody.
- noun Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.
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- noun The characteristic of being
bloody .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to shed blood
- noun the state of being bloody
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Examples
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The play, under Michael John Garces's taut direction, is a gritty depiction of the ritualistic world of gangs in barrios and prisons, and reminiscent in its theatrical bloodiness and steaminess of "Oz," the late 1990s HBO cellblock drama.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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And, apparently, she is quite nice and does not mention the bloodiness/lack thereof in her eyeball on a regular basis.
Taking the boot off 2009
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What's New: With an Edwardian look, the production contrasts the politeness and elegance of court against the violence and bloodiness of war.
Five Acts in the Summer of the Bard Pia Catton 2011
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The play, under Michael John Garces's taut direction, is a gritty depiction of the ritualistic world of gangs in barrios and prisons, and reminiscent in its theatrical bloodiness and steaminess of "Oz," the late 1990s HBO cellblock drama.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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"Calixto doesn't hide anything," says Borja Sitjà, BIT's general manager, who compares the bloodiness of a Bieito production with an average night's news broadcast.
Calixto Bieito's Second Act J. S. Marcus 2011
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As for empire civil war is symbol that U.E.S. defense and attacking battle pull apart beseal long time order from more bloodiness war.
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One example of the communist murderers that gave truth to the bloodiness of socialist ideals was the Khmer Rouge, currently in the news as we see one of the mass murderers only getting a 19 year sentence.
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The other thing that bothered me as well, is the occasional grittiness or rather bloodiness of the tale, which contrasts the more prevalent neutral-storytelling in quite an ungainly manner (for this reader anyway; and I am usually not against explicit content).
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The other thing that bothered me as well, is the occasional grittiness or rather bloodiness of the tale, which contrasts the more prevalent neutral-storytelling in quite an ungainly manner (for this reader anyway; and I am usually not against explicit content).
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Contemporary sources, both Spanish and indigenous, failed to call the disease by any name, neither tabardillo — the Spanish name for typhus — nor matlazáhuatl. 43 Mendieta, for example, wrote that both epidemics were due to "pujamiento de sangre," or "full bloodiness," but that the illness of 1576 was also tabardillo. 44 One of the most striking symptoms recorded for both epidemics was bleeding from the nose.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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