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bloody-minded

[bluhd-ee-mahyn-did] / ˈblʌd iˈmaɪn dɪd /


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The concern is that DHS will oppose Mr. Guan’s claim in a bloody-minded attempt to punish his illegal entry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

"She is valiant, flawed and haughty, as bloody-minded as she is brilliant, scarred by the horrors of war," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022

The bloody-minded Sawtelle council refused to recognize the vote and stubbornly held pointless meetings, until Sawtelle took another vote, in 1922, to confirm the first.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2021

No matter the name on the jersey, there is a tendency for self-destruction and, at times, for sheer, bloody-minded stupidity encoded deep in the DNA of the club.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2019

The fact that those bloody-minded thieves have been working our long trap lines was a pretty good indication that their camp lay somewhere handy to these.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess




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