bloodsome

comparative more bloodsome · superlative most bloodsome

1. literal and figurativeMarked by blood; bloody (all senses).

   '[...] It makes things rather bloodsome.'

   2013, Jim Perrin, Shipton and Tilman

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   The sight of the rope against the whitewashed wall and the thought of the bloodsome uproar which was about to smash the peace of the night into hash served to deepen that rummy feeling to which I have alluded.

   2008, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves

   If not for all that beyond the Forest, the Waters, I would not this Anxiousness have, but indeed with the sign of that Carnage, bloodsome, not only to me but to everyone 'tis Burdensome, bothersome, and every—[...]

   2008, Witold Gombrowicz, Trans-Atlantyk

   The only tolerable thing about Cannes is the hotel garden, which contains ornamental water with ducks, water-rats etc, and forms an oasis in this bloodsome desert.

   2013, P. G. Wodehouse, Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

   “It's not just the bloodsome noise; but, also, you're out of time.”

   2014, Gabriel Fielding, Through Streets Broad and Narrow

   Ta relieve my own strain of mind, and as I was curious too about the character of a man who could tell stories in such conditions, I ran round the traverse and visited him. He greeted me with: 'Hello, Old Thing. How is the bloodsome war in your part of the world?'

   2015, Lt.-Colonel John Frederick Lucy, There’s A Devil In The Drum

1. golfA kind of greensome game in which the opposition pairing choose which ball is played.

   Synonyms: gruesome