in cold blood
C2 If someone kills in cold blood, they kill in a way that seems especially cruel because it seems to show no emotion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
- strong-arm
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