The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butcherly \Butch"er*ly\, a.
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman;
fell. ``The victim of a butcherly murder.''
--D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage. adv. (context obsolete English) Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally.
WordNet
adj. poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, unskillful]
accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous]
Usage examples of "butcherly".
The role, though dull, was not a useless one, for Mrs Ruddle, with a large knife in her hand, was standing at the scullery door as though prepared to carry out a butcherly kind of post-mortem upon whatever might be brought up from the cellar.
Caddis was left reflecting, that we have, in the dispensations of Providence, when we have a seat, to submit to castigations from butcherly men unaccountably commissioned to solidify the seat.