bloody
IPA: bɫˈʌdi
noun
- (informal) bloody mary
verb
- (transitive) To stain with blood.
- (transitive) To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
- (transitive) To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).
adjective
- Covered in blood.
- Characterised by bloodshed.
- (informal, Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Hawaii, mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier.
- (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
adverb
- (informal, Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.
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Examples of "bloody" in Sentences
- The phrase "bloody brilliant" seeped from his lips.
- In what they described as a bloody weekend in Transkei, at least five people died from gunshot wounds in other incidents.
- He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists.
- The country's embassy in Malaysia condemned what it called a "bloody attack on our beloved citizens" in a faxed statement.
- He said coalition operations averted what he called "bloody massacre" of residents in the rebels' eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
- In the late 1960's, he would sometimes place what he referred to as "bloody bundles"-animal parts wrapped in white cloth-on the sidewalks of Rio and record the responses of passerby on videotape and with photographs.
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