gory

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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gory (ˈɡɔːrɪ)

—*adj* , gorier, goriest
1.	horrific or bloodthirsty: a gory story
2.	involving bloodshed and killing: a gory battle
3.	covered in gore

'gorily

—*adv*

'goriness

—n

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gory

"blood-soaked," c.1480, from gore (n.).

Example sentences

It has gory war violence, including the slitting of throats, and profanity.

We'll have to wait until the gory results are in to know for sure.

The blood-drenched climactic scene, which takes place in a cinema showing

another gory war movie, rather supports that view.

She no longer sees gory pictures showing blood or organs as acceptable.

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"In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control.... Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained."

-Murray Bookchin

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