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• s  destitute of blood or apparently so
  the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden
• a  free from blood or bloodshed
  bloodless surgery
  a bloodless coup
• s  without vigor or zest or energy
  an insipid and bloodless young man
• s  devoid of human emotion or feeling
  charts of bloodless economic indicators
• s  anemic looking from illness or emotion
  tried to speak with bloodless lips

• After deposing Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless army coup last September, Thailand's ruling junta promised to restore democracy by the end of this year.
• Last week Dahomey suffered its fifth coup in six years, but this time the takeover was not bloodless.
• Erythropoietin is usually the drug of choice for bloodless medicine because of its stimulative effect on red-blood-cell production.

• exsanguine
• exsanguinous
• ashen
• blanched
• livid
• white

• bloody

News & Articles

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• Editorial: U.S. and Taliban talk about peace, and that's a start
  Since 1973, when King Mohammed Zahir Shah was ousted in a bloodless coup by his communist brother-in-law, pessimism about Afghanistan has generally not gone unrewarded.
  June 21, 2013 - Ventura County Star
• The Case Against Immigration Reform Just Got a Lot Uglier
  It’s easier to frame opposition using the bloodless language of the budget than the combustible language of national character and composition, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote this mornin, but the Congressional Budget Office has refuted argument by finding that immigration reform would cut almost $1 trillion from the federal deficit over the next 20 years. 
  June 19, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• Bloodless Medicine safer and more cost effective for all, experts say
  Bloodless Medicine: Englewood Hospital is one of the Nationwide Leaders in these practices
  June 18, 2013 - The Record

Quotes

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• Denny Chin in NPR
  With the verdict, Chin said he was sending a message "that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil, and that this kind of manipulation of the system is not just a bloodless crime that takes place on paper, but one instead that takes a...
• Don McKinnon in Forbes
  Just because this was a bloodless coup, it doesn't always remain that way,McKinnon said.
• Ken Burns in Washington Post
  Burns said he worked hard to avoid presenting the war in a way "that removes you from experiencing it as real events, as though the Second World War, which is so wrapped in bloodless, gallant myth, is the good war. It's not the good war. It's the...