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- adverb In a
bloodthirsty manner.
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Examples
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And you in the media, who bloodthirstily called for my head, and my breast, and my lean, white meat — just that small piece right there … did you ever stop to think of how it might affect my little poults?
Teddy Wayne Talks Turkey Wayne, Teddy 2008
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Egg two evidently demolished, he nodded and winked, adding bloodthirstily: —
Ulysses 2003
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He sat on the back of an armchair staring bloodthirstily at W.C. Fields, my crotchety-looking silk parrot, who hung on a perch by the window.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994
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Randy wished bloodthirstily that Dalton had been in the car.
The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey
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"I'd liked to put a rock in every one of them," he declared bloodthirstily.
Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie
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Wrenn had bloodthirstily disapproved Horatio Hood's effeminate remarks, such as "Tee hee!" and "Oh, you naughty man," but when he heard that this molly-coddle had shared in the glory of making moving pictures he went proudly forth with him and Tom.
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Egg two evidently demolished, he nodded and winked, adding bloodthirstily:
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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At this point came a momentary lull, the chieftain's eyes rolling bloodthirstily, but the rhapsody having apparently become congested within his fiery heart.
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At this point came a momentary lull, the chieftain's eyes rolling bloodthirstily, but the rhapsody having apparently become congested within his fiery heart.
Count Bunker 1905
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"Else we'll give you some," said Miss Williams bloodthirstily.
More Cargoes 1897 1903
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