sanguinary

adj 1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"

[syn: {gory}, {sanguineous}, {slaughterous}, {butcherly}]

2: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;

"bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after

the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the

land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: {bloodthirsty}, {bloody-minded}]