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gory

Covered with blood; very bloody.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

Covered with blood; very bloody.

Origin: From . Compare , and güre, gire, gory, clotted, from Old English gyr, filthy, muddy, from dirt, dung; Old Frisian gere, muddy water. More at gore. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(informal) , and often unpleasant.

Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
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  • “Totally underrated movie. Genuinely great stuff. And very gory!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) The sci-fi is perfunctory in what is really just an arch gangster comedy. Has the silly, contradictory rules as most time travel stories, but the performances are great, it's pretty funny, and gives good, gory action. Slight but fun. #SciFi2026”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Surrounded By Kids, Trump Gives Gory Description Of Dead Protesters #CrooksAndLiars”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I love Matthew Rhys but... as an accredited scaredy-cat, just how scary is Widow's Bay? And is it gory? I can't handle gore.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(figuratively) Excessively detailed, often boringly so.

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  • “HorrO's Gory Reviews: READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME REVIEW horrosgoryreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/read...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I'm hoping an adult decided that the kids needed to go visit what's left of the Smithsonian and got them out of there before he decided to go full on gory details about women being murdered.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “This looks like a great horror movie but lately horror that is super gory, super hopeless, and wildly miserable just fully repels me - I just don’t enjoy it anymore? Like by the end of Evil Dead Rise, it almost felt *worse* to survive that whole ordeal”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Does anyone else find something a bit dystopian about those Verisure adverts? I can imagine Verhoeven making one for Robocop that ends with a private security firm gunning down the intruder in a gloriously gory fashion. youtu.be/vTK5s0y1jo4”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “filmmakers setting up a gory scene for a horror movie”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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