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• n  a disposition to shed blood

• Given his undead state and his all too literal bloodthirstiness, his problem has ever been to find a socially (not to say legally) acceptable way of expressing his sweeter side.
• It is not the author's bloodthirstiness her plots are more sanguinary even than real life in the 20th century or the unvarying over burden of emotions that lies on all of her .
• But the Simbas still took the palm for bloodthirstiness.

• bloodiness

Quotes

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• David Starkey in Reuters
  Henry is not only England's best-known king -- with his wives, his girth and his bloodthirstiness -- he is also our most important single ruler,David Starkey, a historian who is curating the exhibition, told Reuters. "When he came to the...
• Amy Chua in Los Angeles Times
  Far more than their bloodthirstiness,Chua writes, "ethnic and religious tolerance allowed the Mongols to achieve and maintain world dominance."