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cold-blooded

/kohld-bluhd-id/US // ˈkoʊldˈblʌd ɪd //

冷血,冷血无情,冷血的,冷血动物

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermic.
    • : without emotion or feeling; dispassionate; cruel: a cold-blooded murder.
    • : sensitive to cold.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.cruel, heartless

Examples

  • This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

  • We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.

  • Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.

  • The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

  • Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

  • Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.

  • Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.

  • When alone she sometimes picked it up and kissed the cold glass passionately.

  • Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

  • Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!

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