adjective
1. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
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"unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
• Syn: ↑cantankerous
• Similar to: ↑stubborn, ↑obstinate, ↑unregenerate
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
2. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
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bloody-minded tyrants
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bloodthirsty yells
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"went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
• Syn: ↑bloodthirsty, ↑sanguinary
• Similar to: ↑bloody
• Derivationally related forms: ↑bloodthirstiness (for: ↑bloodthirsty)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.