bloody-minded

[bluhd-ee-mahyn-did]

blood·y-mind·ed

[bluhd-ee-mahyn-did]
adjective
1.
disposed to violence or bloodshed; bloodthirsty; sanguinary: bloody-minded anarchists.
2.
Chiefly British. unreasonably stubborn or cantankerous.

Origin:
1575–85

blood·y-mind·ed·ness, noun
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Bloody-minded is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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bloody-minded
 
adj
informal (Brit) deliberately obstructive and unhelpful
 
bloody-'mindedness
 
n
 
bloody-'mindedly
 
adv

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