Definitions for sanguinary

sanguinary san·gui·nar·y

Spelling: [sang-gwuh-ner-ee]
IPA: /ˈsæŋ gwəˌnɛr i/

Sanguinary is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in sanguinary (aaginnrsuy).

Definitions for sanguinary

adjective

  1. full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody:
  2. ready or eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
  3. composed of or marked with blood.

Origin of sanguinary

First recorded in 1540-50, sanguinary is from the Latin word sanguinārius bloody. See sanguine, -ary

Examples for sanguinary

Well, you ran against a snag that time, Mr. sanguinary Stingaree!

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters.

This sanguinary programme the mutineers discussed day and night.

On the 22d of August, 1572, commenced this diabolical act of sanguinary brutality.

That it may have often given a sanguinary tone to their fancies I have every reason to believe.

There were ten sanguinary persecutions, some being atrocious.

He was defeated in 1542, in a sanguinary battle, and then accepted terms of peace.

As it chanced, however, neither succumbed in that sanguinary strife.

The war which followed was of the most sanguinary character.

It has been cursed with expensive and unstable governments and sanguinary wars.

Word Value for sanguinary
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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