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butcherly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective butcherly has 2 senses
- butcherly(s = adj.all) botchy, unskillful - poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" Derived form noun butcher4
- butcherly(s = adj.all) gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous - accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
CIDE DICTIONARY
butcherly, a.
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. D. Webster. [1913 Webster]
"What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!" [1913 Webster]
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!" [1913 Webster]
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