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