bloodless

[ UK /blˈʌdləs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫədɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. without vigor or zest or energy
    an insipid and bloodless young man
  2. destitute of blood or apparently so
    the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold
  3. devoid of human emotion or feeling
    charts of bloodless economic indicators
  4. anemic looking from illness or emotion
    tried to speak with bloodless lips
    a face white with rage
    the invalid's blanched cheeks
    a face livid with shock
    lips...livid with the hue of death
    a face turned ashen
    lips white with terror
  5. free from blood or bloodshed
    bloodless surgery
    a bloodless coup
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How To Use bloodless In A Sentence

  • This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
  • To speak generally, if we take all animals which change their locality, some by swimming, others by flying, others by walking, we find in these the two sexes, not only in the sanguinea but also in some of the bloodless animals; and this applies in the case of the latter sometimes to the whole class, as the cephalopoda and crustacea, but in the class of insects only to the majority. On the Generation of Animals
  • A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
  • Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president.
  • His mistake was to anger his nephew, who proclaimed a republic in a bloodless coup in 1973 while he was on an island off Naples, taking mud baths for his lumbago.
  • We must remember this fact because it refutes the argument that one imposes a blockade, embargo, or sanction as a bloodless and humane way of coercing the leaders of a target country.
  • Neither we nor they seem to understand why this new, bloodless God should even matter.
  • In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character.
  • By mid February he had assumed control of the city in a remarkable bloodless coup.
  • Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
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