gory details

noun

informal
: the small facts or pieces of information about something that are unpleasant or interesting in a shocking way
Please, spare us the gory details.

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All of those kinds of gory details were there for a reason. — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025 Malkin pried a few gory details out about the storylines out of LaNasa. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025 Need to hear all the gory details of someone’s messy divorce, or cheating scandal? — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025 Prater, who was expecting gory details, is a little harder to read, though his face twitching doesn’t seem like a great sign. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gory details

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