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Meaning of BLOODY-MINDED

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  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
  2. [adj]  (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
 
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 Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody, cantankerous, sanguinary, stubborn
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Blood"y-mind"ed\, a.
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
--Dryden.
 
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