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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 butch·er·ly /ˈbʊʧɚ/
 (ad.)屠夫般地;殘忍地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Butch·er·ly, a. 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!   --Shak.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 butcherly
      adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful
             attempt" [syn: botchy, unskillful]
      2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
         [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous]