Deliberately obstructive (informal)

Usage examples of bloodyminded.

We were still blatant ethical primitives and a whole lot of folks like me still clung to our individuality with bloodyminded fervor.

Let him be the one to come down and face the truth of what he's helped to bring about, this dear-won, bloodyminded peace.

Sheer bloodymindedness keeps some of 'em in place, but my staff's down to nubbins or feathermovers.

The major reason is because Barchenka's so bloodyminded about keeping her Sacred Schedules, she won't interrupt a shift to retrieve drifters!

No more bloodyminded trainers telling you you rode a stinking race and engaging a different jockey next time.

I, in turn, informed him that I thought his critical judgment consisted entirelyof bloodyminded revenge on writers who, unlike himself, had managed to createsomething people wanted to read.

I, in turn, informed him that I thought his critical judgment consisted entirely of bloodyminded revenge on writers who, unlike himself, had managed to create something people wanted to read.

I'll put up with a lot, but I know something about how you work, and I knew damn well you hadn't had anything to do with the kid, it was Giraud's damn bloody insistence on running another damn probe on a mind that just may be worth two or three others around this place, never mind my professional judgment, Giraud is in a bloodyminded hurry, to hell with procedures, to hell with the law, to hell with everything in his way.