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bloodlessness

/bluhd-lis/US // ˈblʌd lɪs //UK // (ˈblʌdlɪs) //

无血性,无血无肉,无血缘关系,无血

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without blood: bloodless surgery.
    • : very pale: a bloodless face.
    • : free from bloodshed; accomplished without bloodshed: a bloodless victory; a bloodless coup.
    • : spiritless; without vigor, zest, or energy: a dull, insipid, bloodless young man.
    • : without emotion or feeling; cold-hearted: bloodless data.

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Examples

  • The remarkable thing about the Taliban advance is that it has been largely bloodless.

  • Tunisia, after all, has a history of such bloodless takeovers.

  • It’s so bloodless I hesitate to advise reconciling — for their sakes.

  • He seems fleshless, bloodless; he might almost be a black man's parody of how a clean-cut white man moves.

  • At which point it becomes clear that we have entered a minimalist, bloodless horror movie.

  • Then I felt an arm upon my shoulder, and Boris turned a bloodless face to mine.

  • His idea was to become modern, efficient and bloodless by using lethal injection.

  • Winningly, though, Weaver was hardly some bloodless accountant.

  • Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.

  • The baron's pallid face looked more bloodless, his accent was fiercer, and his countenance more ruffianly as he uttered all this.

  • Tremulously he drew the bow across the middle string, his bloodless fingers moving slowly up and down.

  • She traced her sin in its shrunken face, its thread-like limbs, its sick nerves and bloodless veins.

  • So he went on after the bloodless thing that had escaped; and in the way he met the appearance of his 285 mother, and she wept.