ADJECTIVE
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stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders -
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
How To Use bloody-minded In A Sentence
- And all of them could be bloody-minded and contrary, helping you one minute but ignoring you the next.
- I can't say what effects it had, because I didn't end up taking the stuff - in the end I'm too independent and bloody-minded to to want to have my thoughts and moods governed or ameliorated by a drug.
- Every commercial breakthrough or rich, melodic offering has given way to a more bloody-minded - or just bloody - follow-up.
- Discipline a key factor in this, and all the more important because other teams were clearly going to struggle for tries against such a bloody-minded defence.
- People of this sign have real difficulty fitting into the established order and have a bloody-minded will of their own.
- Everybody else accepts the decision. Why must you be so bloody-minded?
- With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- It's so relaxing to be in a world where things go as you want them to - real life today is so very bloody-minded.
- bloody-minded tyrants
- Meanwhile, he wages a low-level campaign of civil disobedience in the tax office where he works, destroying evidence of fraud - more, it seems, out of bloody-minded laziness than idealism.
