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bloody-minded

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blood·y-mind·ed (bld-mndd)
adj.
1. Ready and willing to accept bloodshed or to resort to violence: "forging alliances with bloody-minded tyrants" (Lewis H. Lapham).
2. Chiefly British Perversely cantankerous: "The . . . unions . . . have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders" (Spectator).

bloody-minded·ness n.

bloody-minded
Adjective
Brit & NZ informal deliberately obstructive and unhelpful
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Adj.1.bloody-minded - stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
2.bloody-minded - 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
bloody - having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"

bloody-minded
Translations
bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] adj (BRIT) (col) → con malas pulgas
bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] adj (Brit) (inf) → contrariant(e)obstiné(e)
bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] (Brit) (inf) adjstur
bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] adj (BRIT ) (col) → indisponente


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To be sure there was one rather unpleasant drawback to these agreeable anticipations--the possibility of falling in with a foraging party of these same bloody-minded Typees, whose appetites, edged perhaps by the air of so elevated a region, might prompt them to devour one.
The men were terrible, in the bloody-minded anger with which they looked from windows, caught up what arms they had, and came pouring down into the streets; but, the women were a sight to chill the boldest.
Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded.
 
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