gory
Origin of gory
1Other words from gory
- gor·i·ly, adverb
- gor·i·ness, noun
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How to use gory in a sentence
As we pulled up to the gated facility, he told me that when he does bring visitors to the site—other researchers, students, or journalists like me, for instance—they often expect it to be disgusting, or gory, or terrifying.
What happens when you donate your body to science | Abby Ohlheiser | October 12, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewYoung-blood research, like some gory fairy tale, whispers to us that there could one day be a magic pill that can fix it all.
Has the fountain of youth been in our blood all along? | Kat McGowan | September 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt’s dark, gory and bold in a way that now-adult fans of the “Castlevania” video games will appreciate.
10 noteworthy anime series to stream, whether you’re a longtime fan or first-time viewer | Bethonie Butler | July 8, 2021 | Washington PostHer love of the gloriously gory collides with reality when harrowing incidents begin happening in her small town.
Be sure to tune into this week’s episode to get the rest of the gory details.
What really happened during the ‘Kentucky meat shower’? | PopSci Staff | November 11, 2020 | Popular-Science
Playful and gory, the cartoonish paintings of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist for The Ramones, are every bit as shocking as their creator.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings | Melissa Leon | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe meet a worker named Joan, who tries to escape but is dragged back in after sustaining a gory walker bite on her arm.
The Walking Dead’s ‘Slabtown’: The Real Source of Terror Isn’t Walkers, It’s Rape | Melissa Leon | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis face is gory and pitted with deep shrapnel wounds and his injured hands drip blood on the rumpled woolen blankets.
Hezbollah and Assad Plan Offensive On Jihadists In Yabrud | Jamie Dettmer | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGuinn is mercifully sparing with the gory details, though nothing can make them anything less than revolting.
The Making of a Monster: Charles Manson’s Childhood | Wendy Smith | August 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo his credit, Rinella seems to realize that gory accounts of gutting and killing animals may be of limited interest.
This was the gory blade which they waved before their adversaries, and called the sword of justice.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe Duke's casque was beaten and gory, his long white pennon red-dyed, his horse wounded.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThe ambition of the nobles failed of its object, when "the last of the barons" lay gory in his blood on the field of Tewkesbury.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherWith flashing eyes and swelling veins, he gazed upon the gory face.
The Tiger Hunter | Mayne ReidGrim and gory, with the eyes picked out by the carrion birds, the frightful object rolled.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley | Bertram Mitford
British Dictionary definitions for gory
/ (ˈɡɔːrɪ) /
horrific or bloodthirsty: a gory story
involving bloodshed and killing: a gory battle
covered in gore
Derived forms of gory
- gorily, adverb
- goriness, noun
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