• Bloody-handed

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    Origin

    bloody + handed

    Full definition of bloody-handed

    Adjective

    bloody-handed

    1. Having hands that have blood on them.
      • 2000 , Keith Inman & ‎Norah Rudin , Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science , Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring.
    2. Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.
      • 2008 , Dennis Candy , Peace in the Buddha's Discourses: A Compilation and Discussion , Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.
      • 1758 , Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene (Canto 3) , Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth
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