Butcherly adj. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder.""What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!"
... he had come to himself, and oh, the sad contrast! Butcherly blockheads in these high places, and himself lying sick and powerless, unable to lift a hand ... — It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
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