bloody-minded

Example Sentences

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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

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

The Brits used to balance this sycophancy with some pro-European blather and a bloody-minded sense of cultural superiority.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2019

Historians began revising, some time ago, the earlier judgments of Grant as an unimaginative, bloody-minded general and bumbling president.

From New York Times • May 3, 2018

But he is, strange as it may seem, in this held back and calmed by the more bloody-minded, but yet more politic, Fronto.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William