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  • adverb In a gory manner

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Examples

  • So goes the lore, at least, in Glen Duncan's gorily ludic romp.

    The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan – review 2011

  • By the time we saddled up I was full of hate against a vague figure who was Ignatieff in a Cossack hat with the Tsar's eagle across the front of his shirt; I wanted to settle him, gorily and painfully, and all the way on our ride across the Kizil Kum in the gathering dark I was dreaming fine nightmares in which I despatched him.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Yes you've already guessed that this is a little not safe for regular watching, although it's stylishly done rather than gorily and the camera does cut away quite quickly.

    Filmstalker: British 3D horror Elfie and the Gammons teaser online 2009

  • Indeed, H.P. Lovecraft would probably send salutations from his eldritch realm for the gorily stylish energy they injected into such adaptations of his work as Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak — films that created a new legion of Lovecraft admirers to hungrily seek out his printed work anew.

    Buzzine » Nevermore 2009

  • Mama deer was very messily and gorily dead by the side of the road, peeps.

    Bambi, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  •     Some from a mangled steer toss'd flesh yet gorily streaming;

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Some from a mangled steer toss'd flesh yet gorily streaming;

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • But how does this fit in to the later versions of the ‘Azazeil ritual, when, since there was no longer any sufficiently close truly Wild space left (ancient suburban sprawl?) they had to resort to throwing the goat off the cliff, to make sure (quite gorily) that it wouldn’t come back?

    a bissel more Torah - Danya Ruttenberg 2004

  • It was gorily obvious the forvalaka had visited each ....

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • Some from a mangled steer toss'd flesh yet gorily streaming;

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

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