bloody's Usage Examples:

An hour later, however - a whole bloody hour - I still hadn't found the trig.

half bloody I was disappointed in the predictability of the identity of the half-blood prince.

Twenty years of bloody and purposeless warfare with the armies of the empire and with their fellow-barbarians, the Goths and the Suevi, followed.

Ennemond Boniface was a socialist nudist, who fervently believed that nudism was an alternative to bloody socialist revolution, and would bring about a new naturist era in which all would be equal under the sun (see sidebar).

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents (427 and 425).

During the - latter part of the century its monarchs were en- of gaged in a bloody struggle with a powerful religious political party, the Huguenots, who finally won a toleration which they continued to enjoy until the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685.

China came to the rescue with 60,000 men, and six years of a gigantic and bloody war followed, in which Japan used firearms for the first time against a foreign foe.

'Ya chancer, ya bloody chancer ye.

Free drinks abound, including bloody marys at breakfast, signature rum swizzles in the evening, and complimentary wine at dinner.

He passed through them tensely, many of them as bloody or bruised as he was.

Well, if you do exist, Mister or Missus Psychic, I'll find you first and smash you and your crystal to bloody dust!He dabbed a bloody cuticle as we discussed how to handle the call.

She held up her bloody arm.

Synonyms:

murderous, bloodstained, crimson, butcherly, unmerciful, bloodthirsty, slaughterous, red, homicidal, bloodsucking, blood-filled, bloody-minded, violent, sanguineous, merciless, sanguinary, internecine, gory,

Antonyms:

clement, kind, external, merciful, bloodless,