bloody-handedness

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Etymology edit

bloody-handed +‎ -ness

Noun edit

bloody-handedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being bloody-handed.
    • 1984, Ramon Hawley Myers, Mark R. Peattie, The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, →ISBN, page 106:
      Japanese military was manifest in the bloody-handedness with which it crushed the movement.