Synonyms for cold-blooded
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1. cold-bloodedadjective

   Synonyms:
   sangfroid

   Antonyms:
   warm-blooded

2. cold-bloodedadjective

   Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic.

   Synonyms:
   sangfroid

   Antonyms:
   warm-blooded

3. cold-bloodedadjective

   Lacking emotion or compunction.

   Synonyms:
   sangfroid

   Antonyms:
   warm-blooded

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1. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensateadjective

   without compunction or human feeling

   "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

   Synonyms:
   dusty, cold, moth-eaten, stale, inhuman, insentient, frigid, insensate

   Antonyms:
   homoiothermic, homeothermic, humane, warm-blooded, homothermic

2. cold-bloodedadjective

   having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

   Synonyms:
   inhuman, insensate, cold

   Antonyms:
   homothermic, homoiothermic, humane, homeothermic, warm-blooded

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1. • Zoology

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1. cold-bloodedadjective

   Synonyms:
   poikilothermal, deliberate

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1. List of paraphrases for "cold-blooded":

   cruel, unmerciful

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1. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance:

   For nearly 23 years, Roslyn Pilmar and Evan Wald evaded justice for Roslyn Pilmar and Evan Wald gruesome crime and thought Roslyn Pilmar and Evan Wald would get away with it, but today, a jury rightfully found Roslyn Pilmar and Evan Wald guilty of Murder in the Second Degree for planning Mr. Pilmar's murder together and acting in concert to carry out the cold-blooded killing, i thank the prosecutors in my Office's Cold Case and Forensic Sciences Unit and NYPD detectives for more than two decades of dedication to this case and ensuring that Howard's death was never forgotten.

2. George Lucas:

   Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?' because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to.

3. Eldred Masunungure:

   Though the election looks like it will go to the wire, the greater likelihood, based on cold-blooded analysis, is that experience, depth and state incumbency will triumph over youthfulness.

4. New Jersey:

   So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world -- certainly much more just than anything that's happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers. She is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted.

5. Helle Thorning-Schmidt:

   Denmark was today hit by a cold-blooded act of terror.