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bloody-minded - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'bloody-minded' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bloody-minded [ a.]
- Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.

Meaning of 'bloody-minded' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . bloody-minded [ s]
Meaning (1):
- marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
Example in sentence:
  • bloodthirsty yells;
  • bloody-minded tyrants;
  • went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood
Meaning (2):
- stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Example in sentence:
  • unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders