Difference between bloodthirsty and sanguineous
Definitions
adjective
- marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
Examples
As the student's uniforms are traded for spears and war paint, the innocent boys devolve into uncontrolled, bloodthirsty hunters and ultimately, savages intent on killing the "beast".
Not that he was really concerned with the horrified reaction of the less bloodthirsty.
He's quite bloodthirsty, killing anyone who disobeys him and gets in his way.
Definitions
adjective
- confidently optimistic and cheerful
- accompanied by bloodshed
Examples
Fully recessive mutations are maintained in higher frequencies than partially recessive ones and thus cause greater declines in fitness under consanguineous matings.
The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish, the blue-eyed, the leucophlegmatic, and that with the scapulae having the appearance of wings: and women in like manner, with regard to the melancholic and subsanguineous, phrenitic and dysenteric affections principally attacked them.
_Transactions Obstetrical Society London_, vol. xxxix, p. 115, etc. _Mittelschmerz_ is a condition of pain occurring about the middle of the intermenstrual period, either alone or accompanied by a slight sanguineous discharge, or, more frequently, a non-sanguineous discharge.
