cold-bloodedness
Example Sentences
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The soft tissues that would be the most informative about warm- or cold-bloodedness are rarely preserved in fossils, and paleontologists obviously cannot directly measure an extinct animal’s body temperature.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2022
She inherits his reptilian cold-bloodedness, his narcissistic tendencies and his trivia obsession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2015
It’s their very detachment, what you might call the cold-bloodedness of science, that makes science the killer app.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2015
That level of cold-bloodedness was one of the few genuine surprises in “Grand Guignol.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2014
I could have laughed to see her so unconcernedly consider gray, long-eared Minka as the fourth in the family; but the horrible cold-bloodedness with which she spoke of her child and grandchild was not humorous.
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul
