Definition of Bloody

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Bloody

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

To stain with blood.

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Bloody Quotations

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
William Glasser

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
Freddie Mercury

Bloody Translations

bloody in Danish is blod-
bloody in Dutch is bloedend, bloedig
bloody in German is blutige, blutig
bloody in Italian is insanguinato
bloody in Latin is cruentus
bloody in Portuguese is sangrento
bloody in Spanish is sangriento

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