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butcherly

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

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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