What does butcherly mean?
Butcherly means Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage..
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/ˈbʊtʃəli/ · adjective
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[…].
She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.
Use butcherly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Butcherly means Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage..
Common synonyms include sanguineous, sanguinary, bloody, unskilled.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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[…].
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