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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]
2. The 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]
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