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cold-blooded

How to use cold-blooded in a sentence

It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

How dare you decide in this cold-blooded way whether I am to be called—ah—Tosh—or—ah—Porker!

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

He had fired, remembering that cold-blooded slaughter at the Weedham Industries plant.

Good heavens, Odin thought, what a cold-blooded obituary for any race!

HUNTERS OUT OF SPACEJOSEPH EVERIDGE KELLEAM

Inexpressibly shocked by the cold-blooded proposal, I told him I thought not; it was unusual, and too many were looking.

You feel that they are comparing you at every point, in a silent, cold-blooded way, to the bright particular star.

ROBERT ORANGEJOHN OLIVER HOBBES

Yet most vertebrates have remained cold-blooded, and only a “saving remnant” even of men is really intelligent.

The connection between reckless merriment and cold-blooded cruelty is often startlingly close.

The last speaker was a sister with an austere face and gray eyes which had no end of cold-blooded religious enthusiasm in them.

DUFFELSEDWARD EGGLESTON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985