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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BUTCH'ERLY, a. [from butcher.] Cruel; savage; murderous; grossly and clumsily barbarous.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
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]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Date: 1513 resembling a butcher; savage
Webster's 1913 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.
