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ˌbloody-ˈminded, a.
[bloody a. C. 1.]
1. Inclined to bloodshed; bloodthirsty, cruel.
1584R. Greene Gwydonius f. 57v, I will neither bee so bloudie minded as to breede thy bane. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. i. 36 Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded. 1647Beaumont & Fletcher Lawes of Candy v. 67/2 She is bloudy minded, And turnes the justice of the Law to rigor. 1739Hume Hum. Nat. ii. ii. §iii, He is bloody-minded, and takes a pleasure in death and destruction. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. vii. (1873) 140 When the old bloody-minded tyrant is gone to his long account. 1920R. Macaulay Potterism ii. i. 58 To make out that all our combatants were full of sweet reasonableness..and all our non-combatants bloody-minded savages.
2. Perverse, tiresome, cantankerous; stubbornly intransigent or obstructive.
1935J. Agate in Sunday Times 17 Mar. 6/2 A man says to a presumed lady, ‘What a bloody-minded woman you are!’ 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral vii. 148 They'll lose this fishing, and they'll all get bloody-minded about that. 1959Spectator 1 May 604/1 The building unions..have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders and others.
Add: Hence bloody-ˈmindedly adv.
1971Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. 16/3 The way to get this altered is..to join the Union, and contribute to its debates as persistently and as bloody-mindedly as I did in my early days. 1991Economist 26 Jan. 17 He must go on reassuring other parties—some of whom bloody-mindedly reject negotiation—that their views will be heard. |