[ UK /blˈʌdi/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫədi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. extremely
    Why are you so all-fired aggressive?
    you are bloody right
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or covered with or accompanied by blood
    a bloody nose
    your scarf is all bloody
    the effects will be violent and probably bloody
    a bloody fight
  2. informal intensifiers
    what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
    you flaming idiot
    a crashing bore
    a bloody fool
VERB
  1. cover with blood
    bloody your hands
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How To Use bloody In A Sentence

  • He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
  • Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
  • It was a bloody business, but the rules were the rules.
  • The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
  • Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
  • Russia may still prefer to stay neutral in the bloody conflict with Iraq.
  • Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
  • He believed that socialism would — and must — come to America, not through armed, bloody revolution but through popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of the state. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
  • College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
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