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adjective

Half-blooded adj.

Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

Degenerate; mean.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Half-blooded" Quotes from Famous Books

... as a desperado had spread far beyond the borders of the State of Washington. With such men as these we were destined to win back our native land. They were a wild lot, but each of them was a hero: farmers, hunters, workmen from shop and factory, numerous tramps and half-blooded Indian horse-thieves made up the company. Only a few days ago Fighting Dick's band had had a regular battle in the mountains with a troop of Japanese cavalry, and in the woods of Tacoma more than one Japanese patrol had never found its way back to the city. These ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... its food; By time grown poisonous with it; by the hate And horror of all souls not miscreate; By the hour of power that evil hath on good; And by the incognizable fatherhood Which made a whorish womb the shameful gate That opening let out loose to fawn on fate A hound half-blooded ravening for man's blood; (What prayer but this for thee should any say, Thou dog of hell, but this that Shakespeare said?) By night deflowered and desecrated day, That fall as one curse on one cursed head, "Cancel ...

— Two Nations • Algernon Charles Swinburne