bloody-minded

adj.

1. Ready and willing to accept bloodshed or to resort to violence: "forging alliances with bloody-minded tyrants" (Lewis H. Lapham).
2. Chiefly British. Perversely cantankerous: "The . . . unions . . . have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders" (Spectator).

bloody-mindedness blood'y-mind'ed·ness n.

adjective

Eager for bloodshed: bloodthirsty, bloody, cutthroat, homicidal, murderous, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous. See help/harm/harmless.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  Synonym: cantankerous

Meaning #2: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
  Synonyms: bloodthirsty, sanguinary

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kværulantisk, krakilsk

Nederlands (Dutch)
tegendraads, bloeddorstig

Français (French)
adj. - tête de mule, mauvais coucheur, buté

Deutsch (German)
adj. - stur

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - τζαναμπέτης, στραβόξυλο

Italiano (Italian)
sanguinario, malvagio, prepotente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sangüinário

Русский (Russian)
зловредный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - terco, tozudo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - trilsk, motsträvig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
残忍的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 殘忍的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 심술 궂은, 살벌한, 잔인한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 殺伐な, わざと意地悪する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) يرفض المساعدة أو الموافقه بلا سبب وجيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עושה דווקא, אכזר, רע-לב‬

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