black-bloodedadj.

1771 Oxf. Mag. Feb. 63/1 What has this black-blooded monarch of Spain done, but loaded us with a most gross insult, by a temporary soother?

1780 T. Twining Let. 14 July in Country Clergyman of 18th Cent. (1882) 88 We are the most discontented, ill-humoured, black-blooded, unthankful people upon earth.

1812 La Belle Assemblée May 239/2 Never, certainly, was a murder more black-blooded, deliberate, more rationally wicked.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii. 165 He grovels to the Church when he's black-blooded, But kinglike fought the proud archbishop,—kinglike Defied the Pope.

1901 S. F. Bullock Irish Pastorals ix. 292 He had a temper, a black-blooded ugly temper, that came to him surely from some ould Saxon cut-throat.

1913 Manch. Guardian 3 Mar. 10/4 The rotten Protestants, the lawyers, the liars, and the black-blooded Cromwellians.

1998 R. Theobald tr. B. König Our House 85 She cannot laugh either; everything about her is black-blooded and somber.

2004 Times (Nexis) 3 Feb. The most venal, cynical, black blooded, poison-hearted political spin tarts in fiction.

1842 J. Laurie Syst. Universal Geogr. 538 The Spanish community is divided into two great castes, those of pure Gothic or blue blood, and those of mixed Gothic and Moorish descent, or black blood... They [sc. hidalgos]..look with great contempt on their black-blooded brethren.

1897 W. E. B. Du Bois Conservation of Races (Amer. Negro Acad. Occas. Papers, No. 2) 13 It [sc. the American Negro Academy] aims at once to be the epitome and expression of the intellect of the black-blooded people of America, the exponent of the race ideals of one of the world's great races.

1917 R. M. Johnston Introd. in E. K. Smith To Mexico with Scott 5 Mexicans black-blooded or Spanish, Indians pure or half-breed.

1932 Pittsburgh Courier 7 May i. 8/5 [She] departed these shores to make a deep imprint on the continent... A sort of Mecca for black-blooded artists.

2009 Caribbean Q. 55 85 Come now, can you imagine a black-blooded prince? Gentlemen, when one has two million dollars, one is not Black. One is rich!