Found 2 hits - Term: butcherly, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
butcherly \butch"erly\, 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
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
botchy unskillful gory sanguinary sanguineous slaughterous
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