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bloody-handed

bloody-handed

See also: bloodyhanded

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Adjective

bloody-handed (comparative more bloody-handed, superlative most bloody-handed)

  1. Having hands that have blood on them.
    • 2000, Keith Inman & ‎Norah Rudin, Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science, ISBN 1420036939, page 186:
      Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring.
  2. Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.
    • 2008, Dennis Candy, Peace in the Buddha's Discourses: A Compilation and Discussion, ISBN 955240309X, page 18:
      Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.
    • 1758, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Canto 3):
      Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth