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2 definitions found 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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