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Meanings of bloody-minded in English

Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed.

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Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate.

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Examples for "cantankerous"
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That has been most starkly true in cantankerous America and Brexit-era Britain.
The economist
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Tears are dreadful things; and these cantankerous men can rarely stand them.
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
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He is the most cantankerous and the dearest man I ever met.
The Lost Despatch
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And now there isn't a lazier, more cantankerous fellow in the place.
Maurice Guest
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I love Neil Young's attitude, he's beautifully cantankerous and a creative inspiration.
The Irish Times
Usage of bloody-minded in English
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Dionysus make a convenient Pop hero for this bloody-minded year... View Article
The new yorker
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But at least you knew where you were with a bloody-minded tyrant.
Relentless Pursuit
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Whether it is insolence, indifference, ignorance or bloody-minded chutzpah is anyone's guess.
Radio NZ
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A sheer bloody-minded and suicidal response could therefore not be overruled.
Zero Point
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But now an unforeseen difficulty came in the way of the bloody-minded Bullers.
The Prairie Chief
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On the other hand, the Florentines were really bloody-minded while they were filming.
The monster of florence
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But he grew progressively more disgruntled and bloody-minded about the change.
The Guardian
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She didn't want to turn into some bitter and bloody-minded person.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
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Did the chest Bayly speaks of have some rudimentary capacity for bloody-minded malevolence?
The folklore of discworld
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A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine.
A Tale of Two Cities
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It was the sheer bloody-minded whingeing and moaning that did it.
The Irish Times
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He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition!
The Innocents Abroad
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He liked being different, was bloody-minded and made enemies easily.
The Guardian
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The bloody-minded Fourtou will be sure to attend to it.
A Tramp Abroad
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This was against three bloody-minded Satyrs, who were carrying away a damsel in distress.
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Nor would John Clare have written affectionately about him had he been entirely bloody-minded.
The Pleasures of Ignorance