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Butcherly

//ˈbʊtʃəli// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage.

    "Alexander comming to the Ocean of India, cast in favour of Thetis many great rich vessels of gold into the Sea, replenishing moreover her Altars with a butcherly slaughter, not onely of innocent beasts, but of men[…]."

Adjective
  1. 1
    accompanied by bloodshed wordnet
  2. 2
    poorly done wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From butcher + -ly.

Etymology 2

From butcher + -ly.

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