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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
  • The original perpetrators are the murderous Hamas, but the challenge is beyond the antisemitism that has always existed.
    Ehud Barak, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While the murderous struggle is hard to hear in the video, the barking continued for several minutes and is unmistakable.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 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
  • The angry mob looted the homes of customs agents, harassed those agents’ families, and even burned a small pleasure boat belonging to one unfortunate tax collector on the Common.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The way the story goes, Floyd made Captain Ben Winters angry.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 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, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In the process, the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties and bloody betrayals.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gertrude watched her brother alienate his friends, sapped of mental energy, and increasingly cantankerous.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • This is close and this is intimate, this is brutal and this is hard.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The countdown to return the 48 hostages held by Hamas for more than two years and the end to the brutal war in Gaza will officially commence Thursday morning after the Israeli security cabinet and government convene to approve the deal signed overnight.
    Caitlin McFall , Yonat Friling, FOXNews.com, 9 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
  • Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family must fight for survival as a pack of savage coyotes closes in.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Bloody-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloody-minded. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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