Definition of "butcherous" []

• Murderous; cruel.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And then I remembered the butcherous assortment of saws and knives I had seen among Beaton's implements at Leoch, and I knew."
• "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 attack on him had suddenly become butcherous, cruel, sneaking into his mind somehow to use his most dreaded nightmares against him."