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Bloody-minded

adjective

Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate. Synonym: cantankerous.

Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed. Synonyms: bloodthirsty, sanguinary. "Bloodthirsty yells" , "Went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"

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"Bloody-minded" Quotes from Famous Books

... story grew at once more tragic and more satisfactory. Not only Rostocker and Aronson, but a dozen others were in the cul de sac guarded by this surprising and bloody-minded lamb. Most of the names were well-known as those of "wreckers." In this category belonged Blaustein, Ganz, Rothfoere, Lewis, Ascher, and Mendel, and if Harding, Carpenter, and Vesey could not be so confidently classified, ...

— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... such infamy?—And these—these dogs, and goats, call us barbarians! Us, by the Spirit of Thunder! who would die fifty deaths every hour, ere we would see our matrons, nay! but our matrons' basest slaves, demean themselves as these patricians! Base, carnal, bloody-minded beasts are they—and yet forsooth they boast themselves the masters ...

— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

Words linked to "Bloody-minded" : bloody, UK, Great Britain, U.K., Britain, stubborn, unregenerate, obstinate, sanguinary, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, bloodthirsty