sanguinary

Adjective

• marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
  • bloody-minded tyrants
    
  • bloodthirsty yells
    
  • went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood-G.W.Johnson
    

• accompanied by bloodshed
  • this bitter and sanguinary war
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bloodthirsty , bloody-minded , gory , sanguineous , slaughterous , butcherly