It was luridly described in the book as the place where mystics took refuge.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : the lurid details of an accident. ,the lurid tales of pulp magazines. ,lurid crimes. ,a lurid sunset.    From Dictionary.com. 

Hooligan could have been more fluent, more luridly diffuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

He cursed luridly, pushed out of the booth and tried the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Out of Time]

"Do what you please," was in effect Winter's luridly adjectived answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

"Kerim Shah," muttered Conan, red glints smoldering luridly in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Adventurer]

"Kerim Shah!" muttered Conan, red glints smoldering luridly in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

Unquestionably, he could express his limited thoughts in words luridly strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

Trail brake into a corner and the car pivots luridly, with a big, sliding oversteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fun Screamer Dragging an Anchor] Reference

The sun had broken through the clouds, but shone luridly, giving the sea a leaden tint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

Close to the mysterious bundle their lantern lay smashed and burning luridly in its oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

These were stated baldly, briefly, but for that very quality they rang luridly dramatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

A few added words of luridly picturesque intent gave force and colour to this declaration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

Oddly, in this era of luridly factitious memoirs, Price's comes with unimpeachable credentials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unable to Forget] Reference

She did not look quite at Lady Knollys, but straight before her, rather downward, and very luridly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

The street-lamps gleamed luridly from their stands, serving only to make the dreary darkness visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

A moment more, and the vivid glare of the fires flared luridly through the wild tangle of the undergrowth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

EASY. Well before anybody had actually seen it, 'Showgirls' was hyped, denounced and luridly speculated about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Base Instinct] Reference

Hawkes — Pegtop, as poor Milly used to call him — with an axe in his hand, prowling luridly among the timber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

Immediately I perceived a small object, luridly flaming, which seemed to move with immense speed in our direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

It coiled, clotted seintillant ridges working with snakelike torpor, and then burst into luridly tortured fragments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

Overhead, the storm clouds fled beneath a moon that no man would have recognized, so luridly brilliant was its disk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reach For Tomorrow]

And what was interesting was some of the most luridly anti-monarchist editors were only too pleased to sidle up to the queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2002] Reference

The deafening roar of an explosion resounded in the corridor as a brilliant light was luridly reflected from somewhere behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [This World Must Die!] Reference

Soon the street-lamps glimmered luridly in the mist, and then it required a keen eyesight indeed to see even for a moderate distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference

The out-of-control guy who luridly flaunts his homosexuality in front of children should be pilloried by all Americans, including gays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Looking Out for You]

For some illogical, irrational, totally witless reason, her senses were luridly, slaveringly fixated on what the third time would be like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

One is "Four Corners" by Anna Krachey, a luridly brilliant abstract photograph of magenta and cerulean that is shot through with an India-ink blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)] Reference

In this luridly entertaining nonfiction debut, Melissa Fay Gilbert shows how the people most often snookered in this shell game were the locals themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Doings In A Georgia County] Reference

George crossed to the table and picked up his drink, then walked back to the window, pausing to stare unseeingly at a luridly coloured Victorian hunting print.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

I have cracked a few codices in my time, most notably two: De heteromachina rerum (author unknown) and the luridly extraterrestrial Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Codex Infinitum] Reference

Before the murders were solved — which took months — many news accounts blamed the victims 'rich hippie lifestyle and luridly compared the killings to Polanski's movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood’s Most Beloved Fugitive] Reference

But even so, Smokescreens and Castles is an impressive hour, jam-packed with incidents, luridly articulated, from Kane's life, and with whip-smart reflections triggered by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell Kane] Reference