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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butcherly \Butch"er*ly\, a.
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman;
fell. ``The victim of a butcherly murder.'' --D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly
quarrel daily doth beget! --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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