Butcherly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]