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Bloody-minded   /blˈədi-mˈaɪndəd/   Listen
Bloody-minded

adjective
1.
Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate.  Synonym: cantankerous.
2.
Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed.  Synonyms: bloodthirsty, sanguinary.  "Bloodthirsty yells" , "Went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"






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"Bloody-minded" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the pistol-shot of Neagle. The life of Terry has long since been forfeited to law, to decency, and to morals. He has already exceeded the limit assigned by holy scripture to men of his ilk. "The bloody-minded man shall not live out half his days." The mode of his death was in keeping with his life. Men who break all the laws of nature should not expect to die ...
— Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State • Stephen Field; George C. Gorham

... beseech thee check thy ferocity, quell now thy so great anger and swear not to give our flesh for fowls to tear, so shalt thou come down to earth and stand again upon thine own two legs. And thou, most reverend friar, invoke now thy bloody-minded comrade that he ...
— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol



Words linked to "Bloody-minded" :   United Kingdom, Great Britain, sanguinary, UK, cantankerous, unregenerate, obstinate, stubborn, bloodthirsty, U.K., bloody, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland



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