cold-blooded

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So if you leave, be cold-blooded about it.

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Quick take

without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cold-blooded gathered in one view.

adjective

without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

adjective

having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cold-blooded.

adjective

without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

adjective

having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

Example sentences

So if you leave, be cold-blooded about it.

How did they manage to be so big?Oh and weren't all the dinosaurs cold-blooded?

One remembers that here they were for all intents and purposes cold-blooded killers coming from hell, and civilians were treating them like kids home from summer camp.

I just can't help but feel a tinge of sadness as I watch books and literature get consumed by obsessive measurement and cold-blooded analytics.

While this seems very cold-blooded it was probably a reasonable course of action given the circumstances - look what happened to CraigsList when one of the founders sold out to eBay.

Ive used Stallman this way myself he more or less begs for it. But I dont think youre answering the usual intent of the claim the moral viewpoint is essential, which has nothing to do with anything as cold-blooded as gaming the Overton window and everything to do with deep-seated convictions in the speaker.

It was not an armed struggled between a wronged former officer and the police establishment; it was a manhunt that followed the cold-blooded murder of an innocent woman and her fiance.

I do apologise if I have been rather ignorant and appearing cold-blooded when it comes to the unfortunate female workers who do come across gender inequalities caused by bad management and company culture.

You might as well justify the second Arab-Israeli war in terms of the massacre innocent Palestinians by Israeli militants at Deir Yassin[2], a considerably more cold-blooded, treacherous, strategically terrifying, blatant war crime that played a critical role in driving Palestinians off their own lands.