FRENCH WORD OF THE DAY: Sanguinaire

Sanguinaire: Cruel, inhuman, blood-thirsty.  Describes someone who takes pleasure in killing.

As seen in: « Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Laurent Fabius, a accusé mercredi le président Bachar al Assad de dizaines de meurtres quotidiens et a dénoncé l’usage d’enfants comme boucliers humains par un régime qu’il a qualifié de “sanguinaire”. »

(Translation: “French foreign minister Laurent Fabius accused President Bachar al Assad Wednesday of tens of daily murders and denounced the use of children as human shields by a regime that he called ‘blood-thirsty.’”)

http://www.lepoint.fr/fil-info-reuters/paris-veut-imposer-le-plan-annan-13-06-2012-1473032_240.php

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