bloody-handed

bloody-handed

See also: bloodyhanded

English

Alternative forms

• bloodyhanded

Etymology

bloody +‎ handed

Adjective

bloody-handed (comparative more bloody-handed, superlative most bloody-handed)

1. Having hands that have blood on them.
   • 2000, Keith Inman & Norah Rudin, Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science, →ISBN, page 186:

     Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring.

2. Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.
   • 2008, Dennis Candy, Peace in the Buddha's Discourses: A Compilation and Discussion, →ISBN, page 18:

     Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.

   • 1758, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Canto 3):

     Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth