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bad blood

noun

Etymology

From Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1823).

Definitions

  1. Feelings of hostility or ill will.

    • The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.
    • [T]here was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business.
    • All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, […].

  2. A serious feud or long-standing grudge.

  3. An inherited immoral or disturbed nature.

    • [I]f we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the forcat.
    • "Humph! Thought there was bad blood somewhere!" he exclaimed […]. "No!" was the determined answer […]. Because his father was dishonest is no proof that he is a thief."
    • She has bad blood in her. Her mother […] went to pieces, poor dear, and Judge Lawton wisely sent her East.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A particular disease

      A particular disease; in some places, syphilis.

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