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adjective

Cold-blooded adj.

Having cold blood; said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

Not thoroughbred; said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cold-blooded" Quotes from Famous Books

... that murder was being done in that room, and Tarzan was confident that Rokoff had had no intention that his confederate should go that far—he felt that the man's aims were deeper than that—deeper and even more sinister than brutal, cold-blooded murder. Without hesitating to question those within, the ape-man threw his giant shoulder against the frail panel, and in a shower of splintered wood he entered the cabin, dragging Rokoff after him. Before him, on a couch, the woman lay, and on top of ...

— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... should never be shown otherwise than in what you do; and feelings will be all the more effective in action, in so far as you avoid the exhibition of them in any other way. It is only cold-blooded ...

— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... soul, Jervis, and original too. I wish his talents could be applied in some other direction. I shall have to remonstrate with him if he becomes troublesome." "It is your duty to society, Thorndyke," I exclaimed passionately, "to have this infernal, cold-blooded scoundrel arrested instantly. Such a man is a standing menace to the community. Do you really know ...

— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... so, as a matter of course; the salamander, like a fish, is a cold-blooded animal. The viscous humor which is secreted by the skin of the salamander is able to protect them for a short time from injury by fire, by means of the same phenomenon by which a hand, previously wetted, can be plunged into melting iron without burning it.[J] Thus an idea has arisen that these batrachians ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... son."[145] From England he wrote to Mademoiselle Curchod breaking off the engagement. Perhaps it is because of feminine criticism that Cotter Morison indulges in an elaborate defense of Gibbon, which indeed hardly seems necessary. Rousseau, who was privy to the love affair, said that "Gibbon was too cold-blooded a young man for his taste or for Mademoiselle Curchod's happiness."[146] Mademoiselle Curchod a few years later married Necker, a rich Paris banker, who under Louis XVI held the office of director-general of the finances. She was the mother of Madame de Stael, was a leader ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

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