Cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder

Usage examples of bloodthirstiness.

For this people, enslaved by the king's cruelty and savage barbarity, were already so degenerate and debased in self consciousness, that men were always and without trouble found, who, in order to please the king and his bloodthirstiness and sanctimonious hypocrisy, degraded themselves to informers, and accused of crime those whom the king's dark frown had indicated to them as offenders.

In his wrath--for blood still oozed from his forehead-- George would have exterminated the skulkers, and, checked in his bloodthirstiness, he showered upon them contemptible titles while he cooked two of those we had captured.

The answer, for the moment, became the Legalized Hunt (18) Today we have the commonly accepted violence-pornography in the form of Wild West movies, usually of Italian make, which should be enough for anyone's bloodthirstiness.

Put from thee the sins which are to thee as daughters--though they be dear to the sinful Adam, expel these adopted furies from thy breast--thy pride, thy luxury, thy bloodthirstiness.

Therefore, I will part with my pride to the noble canons of the church--my luxury, as thou callest it, to the monks of the rule--and my bloodthirstiness to the Knights of the Temple.

There was bloodthirstiness the irascible George Armstrong Custer himself would have approved of.

He turned to the assembled throng that was still chanting cries of vengeance and bloodthirstiness, and called out, "The condemned wishes to try and make restitution by telling us where our holy artifacts are!

He began slowly to smile, as the discrete fragments of an idea began to sort themselves out and fit properly together in his mind--an idea that involved the vapor pressure of metallic blood, the leaking qualities of the utility suits worn by his erstwhile assistants, and the bloodthirstiness of his many-legged acquaintances of the day.