bloody-minded

[bluhd-ee-mahyn-did]

adjective

1. disposed to violence or bloodshed; bloodthirsty; sanguinary.

   bloody-minded anarchists.

2. Chiefly British.,  unreasonably stubborn or cantankerous.

bloody-minded

adjective

1. informal,  deliberately obstructive and unhelpful

Other Word Forms

• bloody-mindedness noun
• bloody-mindedly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of bloody-minded¹

First recorded in 1575–85

Example Sentences

He says it had, in his eyes, "come to represent a particular type of bloody-minded person - usually with a degree of what we might call aggressive patriotism".

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After a bloody-minded, blooded-brow win over Argentina in Marseille, England are on the up on the pitch.

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Will the Duke of Gloucester be re-envisioned as a bloody-minded assassin like the bloody-minded Villanelle of “Killing Eve?”

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This ruse played into Trump's cultivated image as some sort of peacenik, despite the fact that he is one of the most bloody-minded public figures in American history.

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In her hands, it’s not hard to imagine these songs as the creation of an especially gifted — if occasionally bloody-minded — indie singer-songwriter.

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