lurid

[lu·rid]

When people are lured into looking at something, they may be drawn to it because it's a shocking, graphic, or horrible scene, something lurid and very vivid that pulls them in. Your mother might complain that she hates lurid TV shows ones that are overly sensationalized and meant to shock.

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Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

Adjective S.
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"

Adjective S.
ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"

Adjective S.
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"

Adjective S.
horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"


a.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

a.
Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

a.
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.


Lurid

Lu"rid , a. [L. luridus.] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.
2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. 3. (Zo'94l.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

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Usage Examples

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

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