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What is the adjective for butchery?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb butcher which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

butchered
  1. (of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.
  2. (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figuratively) distorted beyond recognition.
butcherly
  1. Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cruel, vicious, savage, brutal, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, heartless, sadistic, fiendish, atrocious, inhumane, truculent, wanton, brute, red in tooth and claw, merciless, ruthless, wicked, monstrous, brutish, murderous, beastly, callous, pitiless, ferocious, remorseless, diabolical, evil, bloodthirsty, heinous, violent, bestial, fierce, vile, cold-blooded, villainous, nefarious, base, harsh, infernal, nasty, malicious, hellish, malevolent, black-hearted, dastardly, horrible, dark, severe … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The butcherly dictator displayed his sadistic nature by systematically torturing his political opponents.”
butcherous
  1. Involving butchery, or violent bloodshed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sanguinary, savage, brutal, murderous, bloodthirsty, homicidal, bloody, sanguine, grim, sanguineous, murdering, fell, gory, slaughterous, grisly, bloody-minded, wicked, abominable, atrocious, vile, heinous, monstrous, odious, evil, shameful, loathsome, horrible, outrageous, base, villainous, nefarious, scandalous, abhorrent, disgraceful, detestable, vicious, infamous, contemptible, diabolical, iniquitous, despicable, foul, fiendish, cruel, reprehensible, sinful, hateful, execrable, infernal, nasty … more
butcher
  1. comparative form of butch: more butch
  2. Synonyms:
      3. manlier, tougher, stronger, beefier, more masculine, more manlike, more macho, more unfeminine, more virile, more unladylike, more mannish, more unwomanly, more muscular, more strapping, more Amazonian, more tomboyish, more hoydenish, more swashbuckling, more viraginous, more viragoish, more masc, more manful, more laddish, ruggeder, more ultramasculine, hunkier, more blokeish, more boyish, more aggressive, bolder, more chauvinist, more paternal, more archetypal, more adult, maturer, more grown-up, more grown up, gayer, pinker, camper, benter, queerer, more homosexual, more lesbian, more lavender, more lesbigay, more bisexual, more les, more homoerotic, more transgendered … more
butchering
  1. present participle of butcher
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slaughtering, preparing, carving, dressing, jointing, cleaning, cutting, cutting up, carving up, slicing up, killing, massacring, exterminating, murdering, eliminating, liquidating, mutilating, slaying, terminating, assassinating, destroying, dispatching, smoking, cutting down, disposing of, mowing down, putting to death, putting to the sword, cutting to pieces, executing, annihilating, wasting, wiping out, taking out, rubbing out, whacking, knocking off, icing, offing, bumping off, stiffing, topping, doing in, eradicating, croaking, neutralizing, blowing away, doing away with, decimating … more
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