butcherly Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite poorly done
botchy; unskillful.
- a botchy piece of work
- it was an unskillful attempt
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adjective satellite accompanied by bloodshed
gory; sanguineous; sanguinary; slaughterous.
- this bitter and sanguinary war
WordNet
Butch"er*ly adjective
Definitions
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.
