butcherly

Adjective

butch=er=ly

WORDNET DICTIONARY

butcherly(s = adj.all) botchy, unskillful - poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"

Derived form noun butcher₄

butcherly(s = adj.all) gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous - accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"

butcherly, a.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. D. Webster. [1913 Webster]

"What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!" [1913 Webster]