bad blood noun4 •Feelings of hostility or ill will.The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them. — 1843 •A serious feud or long-standing grudge. •(old-fashioned) 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. — 1882 •A particular disease; in some places, syphilis.