'Butcherly' definitions:
Definition of 'butcherly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly, unskillful]
adjective
Accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
Definition of 'Butcherly'
From: 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]