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eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
- some bloody-minded individuals wanted to castrate the alleged rapists even without so much as a word of sworn testimony
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chiefly British
having or showing a habitually bad temper
- according to palace gossip, behind closed doors the prince was a bloody-minded bore
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“Bloody-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloody-minded. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of bloody-minded was in 1584
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