bloody-mindedness
wanting or encouraging cruel violence:
The former comrades split into merciless, bloody-minded factions.
Do you believe that your government could be bloody-minded enough to kill 300 innocent civilians?
It was his simple bloody-minded refusal to give in that made the difference.
It's very difficult and you have to be quite bloody-minded to stick at it.
The city's inhabitants have a reputation for bloody-minded independence.
I knew she'd be bloody-minded about it.
They choose to ignore the cruel, unjust, and bloody-minded parts of their own religious doctrines.

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