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adjective

Bloodless adj.

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. "The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold."

Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.

Without spirit or activity. "Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!"

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Etymology of 'Bloodless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bloodless" Quotes from Famous Books

... little blowsy. As he drove up to her boarding-house, in a depressing back street below the wholesale district, he stopped in discomfort. At an upper window, leaning on her elbow, was a woman with the features of Zilla, but she was bloodless and aged, like a yellowed wad of old paper crumpled into wrinkles. Where Zilla had bounced and jiggled, this ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... affected to ignore this disgraceful spectacle, with Henrietta sinking her nails into her bloodless palms, but the men broke out and cheered a little in a half-scared manner and some of 'em went down to help the newcomers climb out. Then Ben had words with Bush Jones because he wanted him to wait there and take 'em back to town ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... been 'squeezed,'" said Dolphin, "and nothing's easier if you've got the knack—noiseless, bloodless, traceless, the only scientific way of ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... engines toil: These England's arms of conquest are, The trophies of her bloodless war: Brave weapons these. Victorians over wave and soil, With these she sails, she weaves, she tills, Pierces the everlasting ...

— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray

... So did the bloodless face of a very old Turk, fresh from some horror of assassination in Constantinople in which he, too, had been nearly pistolled, but, they said, he had argued quietly over the body of a late colleague, as one to whom death was of no moment, until the hysterical Young Turks were abashed and ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

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