in cold blood

adverb

in a cold unemotional manner

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he killed her in cold blood

• Syn: ↑coldly

• Derived from adjective: ↑cold (for: ↑coldly)

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adverb

: with premeditation : deliberately — used of an action generally avoided or condemned

kill a man in cold blood

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in cold blood

With deliberate intent, not under the influence of passion

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Main Entry: ↑cold

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in cold blood phrase

in a cruel calm way, without showing any emotion

Unarmed civilians were shot in cold blood.

Thesaurus: showing no emotions and unaffected by emotions_synonym

Main entry: blood

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I

ruthlessly; without feeling

proving that he can kill in cold blood

II

without feeling or mercy; ruthlessly

the government forces killed them in cold blood

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in cold blood

: in a deliberate way : following a plan

They were killed in cold blood by terrorists.

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Main Entry: ↑blood

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in cold blood — see ↑blood

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Main Entry: ↑cold

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In Cold Blood [In Cold Blood]

a US novel (1966) based on fact, written by Truman Capote. It is about the murder in 1959 of four members of a farming family in ↑Kansas. Capote talked in prison to the men who killed them, and his book tells their story. It was the first major novel in which specific events were described in a novel in this way. A film version was made in 1967 and it was also made into a TV series in 1996.