Butcherly
Butcherly adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: Genghis Khan and his butcherly horde even massacred the livestock of the villages they overran
Heartless
Heartless adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: his heartless whipping of runaway slaves virtually to the point of death shocked even other slave owners
Butcherly and heartless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Butcherly" instead an adjective "Heartless".
Nearby Words: heart, heartlessly
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Related pairs
- harsh and butcherly
- harsh and heartless
- barbarous and butcherly
- barbarous and heartless
- brutal and butcherly
- brutal and heartless
- barbaric and butcherly
- barbaric and heartless
- savage and butcherly
- savage and heartless
- severe and butcherly
- severe and heartless
- vicious and butcherly
- vicious and heartless
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