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cold-blooded
[ kohld-bluhd-id ]
adjective
- 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.
cold-blooded
adjective
- having or showing a lack of feeling or pity
a cold-blooded killing
- informal.particularly sensitive to cold
- (of all animals except birds and mammals) having a body temperature that varies with that of the surroundings Technical termpoikilothermic
cold-blooded
/ kōld′blŭd′ĭd /
- Having a body temperature that changes according to the temperature of the surroundings. Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are cold-blooded.
Derived Forms
- ˌcold-ˈbloodedly, adverb
- ˌcold-ˈbloodedness, noun
Other Words From
- cold-blooded·ly adverb
- cold-blooded·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of cold-blooded1
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Example Sentences
But it lacked the one ingredient that has largely been absent from this World Cup: cold-blooded finishing in front of goal.
“Show business” was much more a haven for sentimentalists then, not for ironists like Letterman or cold-blooded comics like Leno.
His sentencing is scheduled for this week—but who do you punish when a child becomes a cold-blooded killer?
She allows she does not rank Allaway among the most cold-blooded of killers.
So Murdoch, cold-blooded and lizard-brained, knows he must preserve his own position while somehow ensuring a peaceful succession.
It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
How dare you decide in this cold-blooded way whether I am to be called—ah—Tosh—or—ah—Porker!
If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.
He had fired, remembering that cold-blooded slaughter at the Weedham Industries plant.
Good heavens, Odin thought, what a cold-blooded obituary for any race!
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