butcherly : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: butcherly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for butcherly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
butcherly adj poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" Synonym(s): botchy, butcherly, unskillful accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" Synonym(s): gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butcherly \Butch"erly\, a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. [bd]The victim of a butcherly* murder.[b8] --D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! --Shak.