bloody-mindedly

blood·y-mind·ed (bl

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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

adj

Brit 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 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"

bloody-minded

adjective (Brit. informal) difficult, contrary, annoying, awkward, unreasonable, stubborn, perverse, exasperating, intractable, unhelpful, obstructive, cussed (informal), uncooperative, disobliging He was just being bloody-minded.
reasonable, helpful, accommodating, cooperative, open-minded, fair-minded

Translations

bloody-minded [ˈblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] ADJ (Brit)

1. (= stubborn) → terco, empecinado
the bloody-minded conservatism of some groups → el terco conservadurismo de algunos grupos

2. (= awkward) → atravesado, difícil
you're just being bloody-minded → son ganas de ser atravesado or difícil → son ganas de fastidiar
he didn't really want a replacement, he was just being bloody-minded about it → no quería realmente un sustituto, lo hacía sólo para fastidiar

bloody-minded

adj (Brit inf) → stur (inf)

bloody-minded [ˌblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪd] adj (Brit) (fam) → indisponente

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bloodthirsty
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sanguinary
stroppy
uncooperative

And that unfortunately means the chairman, bloody-mindedly parading around the Kop.

Football: Fan scene: Besieged Dragons having to fight for their own ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

The begrudgery of these people has been clear on TV and radio and the tragedy is that just as the dying wasp stings hardest, their followers can be expected to react bloody-mindedly and perhaps bloodily to the removal of their last objection to true democracy in the North.

WAR ON TERROR: THE HATE GOES ON: Political analyst Tim Pat Coogan on ... by The Mirror (London, England)

If you are bloody-mindedly determined to chisel for a flaw, you can argue that he can still get a notch low at his fences, but in all honesty anyone clutching at that straw is probably the type who will spend all this afternoon worrying about whether tomorrow will be Tuesday or not.

Rattling the keys to the inner sanctum; See More Business powers ... by Down, Alastair / The Racing Post (London, England)

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