What is the meaning of bloody-minded?

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adjective

  • Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate."unions... Have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders- Spectator
  • 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
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