bloody-minded
1bloody-minded — adj deliberately making things difficult for other people →↑awkward ▪ Stop being so bloody minded! >bloody mindedness n [U] …
2bloody-minded — bloody mindedness, n. /blud ee muyn did/, adj. 1. disposed to violence or bloodshed; bloodthirsty; sanguinary: bloody minded anarchists. 2. Chiefly Brit. unreasonably stubborn or cantankerous. [1575 85] * * * …
3bloody-minded — adjective BRITISH INFORMAL deliberately refusing to accept that you are not completely right about something, in a way that is not helpful to other people and annoys them ╾ ,bloody mindedness noun uncount …
4Bloody-minded — Blood y mind ed, a. Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …
5bloody-minded — ► ADJECTIVE Brit. informal ▪ deliberately uncooperative …
6bloody-minded — [blud′ēmīn΄did] adj. Chiefly Brit. 1. bloodthirsty; cruel 2. tending to be perverse or obstructive …
7bloody-minded — ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you say that someone is being bloody minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful. [BRIT, INFORMAL] He wouldn t get out …
8bloody-minded — adjective 1. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate unions...have never been as bloody minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders Spectator • Syn: ↑cantankerous • Similar to: ↑stubborn, ↑obstinate, ↑unregenerate …
9bloody minded — Meaning Origin From Shakespeare s King Henry VI SUFFOLK: Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. A cunning man did calculate my birth And told me that by water I should die: Yet let not this make thee be bloody minded; Thy name is… …
10bloody minded — British & Australian, informal someone who is bloody minded makes difficulties for other people, usually by arguing against their actions or ideas without a good reason. There s no reason why we shouldn t do aerobics in the squash court the… …
