bloody-minded (redirected from bloody-mindedly)

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.

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bloody-minded·ness n.

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bloody-minded

Adjective

Brit & NZ informal deliberately obstructive and unhelpful

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bloody-minded - stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator cantankerous 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 bloodthirsty, sanguinary 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"

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bloody-minded

adjective Brit. (informal) difficult, contrary, annoying, awkward, unreasonable, stubborn, perverse, exasperating, intractable, unhelpful, obstructive, cussed (informal) uncooperative, disobliging << OPPOSITE helpful

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) adj → stur

bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] adj (BRIT ) (col) → indisponente