stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders- Spectator
[ Syn: cantankerous ]
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
[ Syn: bloodthirsty , sanguinary ]