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
Although many incest statutes apply only to consanguineous relationships, some apply to all legally sanctioned parent-child relationships.
Thus deleterious recessives had not been eliminated from the population to the extent that consanguineous matings were harmless in terms of offspring viability.
A consanguineous sample of 410 Taiwanese mothers and adolescents was drawn from urban schools serving middle-income areas of Taiwan.
