[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]