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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
- Example: "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
[syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous]

2. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;
- Example: "bloody-minded tyrants"
- Example: "bloodthirsty yells"
- Example: "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
[syn: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bloody-minded \Blood"y-mind"ed\, a. Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bloody-minded adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous] 2: 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 [syn: bloodthirsty, bloody- minded, sanguinary]