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Meaning of BUTCHERLY

Pronunciation:  'bûchurlee

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
  2. [adj]  poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"
 

BUTCHERLY is a 9 letter word that starts with B.

 

 Synonyms: bloody, botchy, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, unskilled, unskillful
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.

 

 

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