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bloody-minded

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blood⋅y-mind⋅ed

  [bluhd-ee-mahyn-did]
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–adjective
1. disposed to violence or bloodshed; bloodthirsty; sanguinary: bloody-minded anarchists.
2. Chiefly British. unreasonably stubborn or cantankerous.
Origin:
1575–85

Related forms:
blood⋅y-mind⋅ed⋅ness, noun
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blood·y-mind·ed   (blŭd'ē-mīn'dĭd)
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).

blood'y-mind'ed·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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