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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Murderous; cruel.

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

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  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Prize

  • “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

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

    Simon & Schuster: Nevermore

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

    Marc Cooper

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