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
Ready wit not less than poetical ingenuity could always win the respect of these gentlemen, whose cynical cold-bloodedness and implacability were ever ready to be diverted, provided that the diversion was intellectual.
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
