From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcold-bloodedˌcold-ˈblooded adjective 1 CRUELnot showing or involving any emotions or pity for other people’s suffering a cold-blooded killer cold-blooded murder► see thesaurus at cruel2 HBa cold-blooded animal, such as a snake, has a body temperature that changes with the temperature of the air or ground around it → warm-blooded —cold-bloodedly adverb —cold-bloodedness noun [uncountable]
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cold-blooded• I couldn't do anything so ridiculous as streaking cold-blooded!• Rune had already demonstrated to her that he was far from cold-blooded.• Apparently their rhythm depended on their body temperature, which is to be expected in cold-blooded animals.• Overcrowded with 100,000 cold-blooded bees, the hive had become a warm-blooded organism.• Prosecutors say the brothers are cold-blooded killers.• The honey-bush employs the cold-blooded lizards as its thermometers instead.• The entire nation has been shocked by the cold-blooded murder of the two girls.• a cold-blooded murderer• Professor Herbert argues that such an arrangement is neither cold-blooded nor out of keeping for a family.• Its cold-blooded use by cops facing no threat to themselves is plainly inhumane.cold-blooded murder• Item - Gaveston had hated Lady Eleanor, and he, so Corbett secretly believed, was capable of cold-blooded murder.• Not a man with a strong nerve, and certainly on the surface not one who could carry out a cold-blooded murder.• The alternative is a cold-blooded murder as we described before.• For treachery and cold-blooded murder it has seldom been surpassed.• The cold-blooded murder of a hospitalisation case has aroused great public indignation.• A memory came back to haunt him: the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside. 