accompanied by bloodshed; this bitter and sanguinary war

[ Syn: gory , sanguineous , slaughterous , butcherly ]

marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; bloody-minded tyrants; bloodthirsty yells; went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood-G.W.Johnson

[ Syn: bloodthirsty , bloody-minded ]