Usage of "cold-blooded"

Without compunction or human feeling.

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

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Without emotion or feeling.

Ús de cold-blooded en anglès

By the time they are 18 they are cold-blooded assassins, Rojas said. 
 Reuters 

Kidnappings, bombings and cold-blooded executions left the Tupamaros' romantic reputation in tatters. 
 The Guardian 

She could use a knife with cold-blooded efficiency if the need arose. 
 A river in the sky 

We are intensely indignant at this term; we consider it so cold-blooded. 
 Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris 

If that's the way it happened, we're talking about a cold-blooded bastard. 
 The girl with the dragon tattoo 

It was thoroughly cold-blooded in its letter and spirit, and no Spanish 
 Political Recollections / 1840 to 1872 

He was cold-blooded, entirely without conscience, and still you almost liked him. 
 Gulf coast girl: original title, scorpion reef 

The affair may not have been so cold-blooded as the accounts state. 
 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 

This ritualistic and cold-blooded torture was infinitely more appalling in its humiliation. 
 Clayhanger 

Nestor said, greatly shocked at the revelation of the cold-blooded murder plot. 
 Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam 

It was a cold-blooded business, and hateful to some of the men. 
 Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army 

Eight years earlier, my sister had committed cold-blooded murder at Camp Cadiz. 
 Too close to home 

I'm not a cold-blooded woman; and it was pretty hard for me. 
 The Helpmate 

All were cold-blooded, at home in the muddy streams and weed-clogged pools. 
 The Reality Dysfunction 

This unexpected utterance astounded the Capataz by its character of cold-blooded atrocity. 
 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard 

How can one tell the story of the finish in cold-blooded preterites? 
 A Mortal Antipathy 

Col·locacions frequents

Cold-blooded a través del temps

Significats de cold-blooded en anglès