butcherly

2 definitions found

butcherly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

butcherly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  butcherly
      adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an
             unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly,
             unskillful]
      2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
         [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous,
         butcherly]