Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stained with blood.
- adjective Responsible for killing or slaughter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stained with blood; guilty of bloodshed or slaughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective stained with blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Stained, spotted or otherwise
discolored with blood. - adjective Having the
color of something which has been stained with blood. - adjective Responsible for the
deaths of others. - adjective By extension from sense #3,
guilty ofwrongdoing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with blood
Etymologies
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Examples
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He entered it and discovered a golden idol crusted with red jewels, which he called the bloodstained god.
Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969
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In a communal grave so newly dug in bloodstained gorse and bracken.
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Does Robert Spencer really expect us to pay attention to his deliberations of whether Christians are more of a threat to free societies than so-called 'Islamic jihadists', whether the Bible and the Q'ran contain violence, to consider whether the history of Christianity or Islam is more 'bloodstained', and why he believes Christianity is a religion of peace, but Islam is not.
British Blogs 2010
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The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whose administration has been backed by Washington -- called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold.
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The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - whose administration has been backed by Washington - called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold.
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Does Robert Spencer really expect us to pay attention to his deliberations of whether Christians are more of a threat to free societies than so-called 'Islamic jihadists', whether the Bible and the Q'ran contain violence, to consider whether the history of Christianity or Islam is more 'bloodstained', and why he believes Christianity is a religion of peace, but Islam is not.
British Blogs 2010
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The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whose administration has been backed by Washington -- called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold.
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The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whose administration has been backed by Washington -- called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold.
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The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - whose administration has been backed by Washington - called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold.
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Does Robert Spencer really expect us to pay attention to his deliberations of whether Christians are more of a threat to free societies than so-called 'Islamic jihadists', whether the Bible and the Q'ran contain violence, to consider whether the history of Christianity or Islam is more 'bloodstained', and why he believes Christianity is a religion of peace, but Islam is not.
British Blogs 2010
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