{s} cruel, bloodthirsty; describes a person who makes things difficult for others and opposes their views in an unreasonable manner; unreasonably stubborn
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. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult. + bloody-mindedness bloody-mindedness This is sheer bloody-mindedness. a rare mixture of courage and bloody-mindedness. deliberately making things difficult for other people awkward
marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G W Johnson