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Recent Examples of bloody-minded Arsenal need to be bloody-minded and show a bit more courage and conviction than in recent meetings. Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025 But this was an emotional display of bloody-minded defiance. Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 July 2025 Suffice to say that Marseille, the oldest city in France, also developed a bloody-minded streak that would have no doubt impressed Caesar himself in the coming centuries. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025 This exchange is emblematic of their close but often adversarial relationship: two similarly bloody-minded women who are always butting heads. Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025 How could a team in black and white be this unflinching, so bloody-minded and determined? Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025 The International Olympic Committee has functioned as financier and enabler of autocrats with world-destructive designs as bloody-minded as any historical tyrant. Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 Marisa Abela portrays the late singer in her ascendancy from a plucky teenager to a troubled icon of jazz and pop; the trailer focuses on her bloody-minded approach to her career, and the friends, family, and other figures who were beside her along the way. Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloody-minded
Adjective
  • Those settlers managed to make an underground river with murderous maggots on unstable terrain into a tourist attraction in record time.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The stories of the state's historic lodges are full of resilience, overcoming natural and economic disasters, and in one case, a brush with a murderous gang of bank robbers.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • However, such symptoms are hard to attribute to vaccines because infants can be irritable or fussy regardless of vaccination.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When the caffeine wears off, children may have a headache and feel irritable or tired.
    Dr. Mark Corkins, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • An angry cowboy named Jake once slammed a guest’s door and locked it.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara with a screenplay by Hiroshi Seko, the movie follows Denji as his encounter with café worker Reze leads to a clash between intimate connection and bloody chaos.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Milošević, who died while on trial for war crimes, did much to inflame Serbian nationalism in the early 1990s and presided over the bloody wars in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
    Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Getty portrayed the cantankerous but charming matriarch Sophia Petrillo, the mother of Arthur's character, and McClanahan played the flirtatious Southern belle Blanche.
    Ashley Hume , Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Tudyk played Sonny, a robot who helps the cantankerous detective uncover the truth behind his creator's death.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The scene, which was not in Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book that the movie was adapted from, raised eyebrows for its brutal killings of vampires Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), as well as werewolves Seth (Booboo Stewart) and Leah Clearwater (Julia Jones).
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At 0-2, the Chiefs may be a little more ornery than usual.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The goal is to capitalize on the holidays when kids will be out of school and eager to see some ornery avians.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • McBride sets the political context for Swift’s savage indignation by noting that 1727–1729 saw three successive harvest failures in Ireland.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The singer went viral at Monday night’s show for her seemingly savage reaction to Tori Kelly and Muni Long’s tribute performance.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Bloody-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloody-minded. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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