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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!"






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"Butcherly" Quotes from Famous Books



... relative. People came to me and said—"Now really, President, we would do much to serve a relative of yours. But still, what can be said? You know yourself that he'll disgrace us. If we were to elect him, why, the next thing we should hear of would be some vile butcherly murder, by way of justifying our choice. And what sort of a concern would it be? You know, as well as we do, that it would be a disgraceful affair, more worthy of the shambles than of an artist's attelier. He would fall upon some great big man, some ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... upon me. If I have been fool enough to have been led into an ambuscade by these artful savages, I am wise enough to know how to die for it without disgracing the service. I am only sorry for my poor fellows," he said, "that have fallen into such butcherly hands." ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Butcherly" :   unskillful, slaughterous, sanguinary, gory



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