Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Murderous; cruel.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word butcherous.

Examples

  • And then I remembered the butcherous assortment of saws and knives I had seen among Beaton's implements at Leoch, and I knew.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • On the morning of December 17, the second day of the German offensive, a panzer unit, led by a butcherous colonel named Jochem Peiper, overran a small fuel dump nearby.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • On the morning of December 17, the second day of the German offensive, a panzer unit, led by a butcherous colonel named Jochem Peiper, overran a small fuel dump nearby.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The attack on him had suddenly become butcherous, cruel, sneaking into his mind somehow to use his most dreaded nightmares against him.

    The Dark Door Alan Edward Nourse 1960

  • For if that devilish rascal Neuendorf ain’t guilty, then the butcherous killer is still walkin’ the streets

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • a new story out detailing -- as never before -- the depth of Kissinger's involvement in that bloody, butcherous coup of 1973.

    Marc Cooper 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.