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. 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.

2. Robin Dawson:

   Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are warm-blooded, and reptiles, which are cold-blooded, our results suggest that all major groups of dinosaurs had warmer body temperatures than their environment.

3. The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association:

   He has rejected the decisions of juries that wrestled with the facts and the law before unanimously imposing the death penalty, disregarded a long line of decisions made by Pennsylvania and federal judges, ignored the will of the Legislature, and ultimately turned his back on the silenced victims of cold-blooded killers.

4. 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.

5. Jasmina Wiemann:

   Lizards and turtles sit in the sun and bask, and we may have to consider similar' behavioral' thermoregulation in ornithischians with exceptionally low metabolic rates. Cold-blooded dinosaurs also might have had to migrate to warmer climates during the cold season, and climate may have been a selective factor for where some of these dinosaurs could live.