bloody-minded Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
    cantankerous.
    • unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
  2. adjective satellite marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
    bloodthirsty; sanguinary.
    • bloody-minded tyrants
    • bloodthirsty yells
    • went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson

WordNet


Blood"y-mind"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.

Webster 1913