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Butcherly

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Butch´er`ly
a.1.Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
- Shak.
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Adj.1.Butcherlybutcherly - poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"
botchy, unskillful
unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"
2.butcherly - accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, gory
bloody - having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"


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You may also tell him, from me, that after abandoning his worldly goods and position to this butcherly mob, I wonder he is not at the head of them.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
Anthony, as he called them, and a great rabble with them, bringing along with them the true widow that I was pretended to be; and they came sweating and blowing into the shop, and with a great deal of triumph, dragging the poor creature in the most butcherly manner up towards their master, who was in the back shop, and cried out aloud, 'Here's the widow, sir; we have catcher her at last.
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context
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