bloodless
Adjective
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Adjective
bloodless
- Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, Scene 1,
- Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,
- Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:
- Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight
- Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,
- Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
- 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 2001, Part One, Chapter 2,
- The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, Scene 1,
- Taking place without loss of blood.
- ''a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory
- Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.
- 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian,” Time, 8 February, 1937,[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883581,00.html]
- Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste.
- 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian,” Time, 8 February, 1937,[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883581,00.html]
- German: blutleer
- Russian: безжи́зненный
- Spanish: exánime
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