bloody-minded
disposed to violence or bloodshed; bloodthirsty; sanguinary: bloody-minded anarchists.
Chiefly British. unreasonably stubborn or cantankerous.
Origin of bloody-minded
1Other words from bloody-minded
- blood·y-mind·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby bloody-minded
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How to use bloody-minded in a sentence
On the other side an enraged, radicalized and increasingly sectarian and bloody-minded Islamist opposition.
In the name of all the kings of Albin, who have ye closeted with you in that wooden tower that seemeth so bloody-minded?
The Pathfinder | James Fenimore CooperBut Newark Castle has better claims to notice than as the dungeon of one of those old bloody-minded prelates.
The Great North Road: London to York | Charles G. HarperThis Mr. Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded.
Kidnapped | Robert Louis StevensonThe old fellow cursed me roundly for an obstinate, bloody-minded young fool.
Athelstane Ford | Allen Upward
The watchwords of the bloody-minded in that region, and in those days, were, "Damn the abolitionists!"
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
British Dictionary definitions for bloody-minded
British informal deliberately obstructive and unhelpful
Derived forms of bloody-minded
- bloody-mindedness, noun
- bloody-mindedly, adverb
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