Butcherly \Butch"er*ly\, a.
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman;
fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." --D. Webster.
[1913 Webster]
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
butcherly
adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful
attempt" [syn: botchy, unskillful]
2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
[syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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