Crossword clues for bloody-minded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bloody-minded \Blood"y-mind"ed\, a.
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Eager for or wanting blood 2 obstinate, stubborn
WordNet
adj. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: cantankerous]
marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: bloodthirsty, sanguinary]
Usage examples of "bloody-minded".
Hisser won not-guilty-by-reason-of-entertaining-legal-defense verdicts for the most savage, unremorseful, bloody-minded, and ill-dressed murderers of its time, winning kudos, plaudits, accolades, and prize Cadi1lacs from the wards committee of the hoity-toity American Bar Association.
Less bloody-minded civilizations of the equatorial zone merely pushed the remnant Aq populations into the deserts and barely habitable canebrakes of the coast.
He was a foulmouthed, bloody-minded, violent-tempered, dissolute fellow.
To-morrow, for instance, I shall sit with you on the appeal tribunal and we shall see whether the high ideals of youth are controlled by any obstacle at all: and whether justice to the provincials can be denied them by any incompetent, avaricious, bloody-minded sexagenarian debauchee.
Attracted by the rumors of chaos and tragedy from the bloody-minded ambitions and cruel slayings here in Choin.
In the name of all the kings of Albin, who have ye closeted with you in that wooden tower that seemeth so bloody-minded?
Edgewise is traveling with his Wife, who, when she must, regards him with a Phiz that speaks of the great amounts of her time given over, in a philosophickal way, to classifying the numerous forms of human idiot, beyond the common or Blithering sort, with which all are familiar, the Bloody-Minded I.
Therefore he had sweated in agony, seeing the Stepsons ride north and Critias ride with them: therefore he had prayed nightly to the darkest of gods for the saving of one Stepson from war and from the chances of war-and for the weaving of spells about the other, spells that should damn him to hell and bring Critias-the stiff-necked, hard-handed Critias, straight from war and arriving bloody-minded in a town rife with ensorcelments, a town Straton commanded-bring Critias back with a vengeance, oh, yes, the man of war to the man bespelled, his partner, his-lover, doubtless, in the way of Sacred Band partners: Nas-yeni knew every detail he could glean of the Sacred Band, studied them, obsessively, the way he had once studied his rivals in business, and studied, most particularly, this Pair, their reputations, their manner, the time of their sleeping and eating and the look on their faces .
At worst, a bloody-minded fuzzy-wuzzy would sniff the air and tell you to come along and there'd be a fine which was a nuisance and you'd have to stretch your credit for the next lift.
Or else they're 158 just bloody-minded toerags who take pleasure in frustrating us.
I believed, like other Remillards, that I had been allowed to persist in my unregeneracy because of my famous family and because I was no menace, my refusal having been grounded in bloody-minded stubbornness rather than malice or arrogance.