Definition of "bloodthirsty" []

• Eager to shed blood. (adjective)
• Characterized by great carnage. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Maybe, but in the arts it takes more than just being good; it takes what I call bloodthirsty determination."
• "They were doing their best to strike down the universal monarchy of Spain, which they described as a bloodthirsty, insatiable, insolent, absolute dominion of Saracenic, Moorish Christians."
• "Invocations, in bloodthirsty language, encouraged it to punish the guilty party."