bad blood
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.96 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them."
- "[T]here was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business."
- "All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, […]."
- "Evil runnin' through our brain / We and evil is about the same / Bad blood through our body flows / Where's the love, nobody knows"
- "The former vice-president’s characterizations of peers such as Pete Buttigieg (talented but too gay for the America to accept as her running mate), and Josh Shapiro (an egoist) are not particularly juicy, but have already caused bad blood."
- "Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up. I like not to tell of slaughter, though it might be of wolves and tigers; and that was a night of fire and slaughter, and of very long-harboured revenge. Enough that ere the daylight broke upon that wan March morning, the only Doones still left alive were the Counsellor and Carver."