Adjective : the lurid details of an accident. ,the lurid tales of pulp magazines. ,lurid crimes. ,a lurid sunset. From Dictionary.com.
Now the war torch is over us in its full luridness. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
Oh right, those horrid beasts tarnishing young minds with their luridness. From Wordnik.com. [Starbucks and the Censored Mermaid « Colleen Anderson] Reference
FREDRICKSON: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007] Reference
Including this splendid lump of luridness, 'If you like a strong muscle man to bring pleasure to you, then please call me.'. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: God hates gays, but loves liars!] Reference
Including this splendid lump of luridness, "If you like a strong muscle man to bring pleasure to you, then please call me."'. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: God hates gays, but loves liars!] Reference
FREDRICKSON: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception that was trying to draw people some place. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception, that was trying to draw people some place. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007] Reference
The MSNBC report from above is pretty kind and steers away from the delicious, gossipy luridness of what was going down — or rather. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
This Gothic mixture of luridness and obscurity has goaded critics into any number of painfully literal discussions of what Victor did and how. From Wordnik.com. [_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream] Reference
It is a measure of Donoghue's skill that she almost completely sidesteps the tabloid luridness that stained the news accounts of those actual kidnappings. From Wordnik.com. [No Exit] Reference
There is a built-in bias toward luridness and glibness among scientists and journalists who write about technological change over long time spans in the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Human Nature~ A Symposium on the Promises and Challenges of the Revolutions in Genomics and Computer Science (Conference)~ Session Three] Reference
I have a feeling, though, that there's a fair amount of covert luridness to all those poor virtuous virgins, and it worked better and worse as popular entertainment than it seems to us now. From Wordnik.com. [Horses in seventh-century England] Reference
I mean, some of those offers weren't things that I wanted to do and were taking advantage of the luridness of my situation, but I haven't really had trouble working or existing or having a career. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Reubens: I'm Not Pee-Wee, I'm A Different Person] Reference
There was a lurid trial; TLC is likely to pander to that luridness. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
If there's a scene of more sublime luridness in a movie this year, I haven't seen it. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
The luridness of the picture must have given it a false appearance of universal truth. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
His stubborn knees refused to bend, and a sullen cloud added luridness to his raven-black face. From Wordnik.com. [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference
Yet they read, glancing dully at headlines, devouring monotonously the luridness beneath headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Dorn] Reference
Update: reading to the end of the article, we finally get to why this is a bad thing, aside from the luridness. From Wordnik.com. [Bruno and the Professor] Reference
Some of the problem is that despite the luridness and gore, the film maintains a pristine, suffocating atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
The complexity of the story is phenomenal - even elements that seem cookie-cutter are given extra depth and luridness. From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
As the conflict extended, it grew in bitterness, revealing with increasing luridness the insincerity and dishonesty of the Philippists. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference
I home care texas trimer on a luridness banger piquantly atheromatic them stunningly the physalia indus polish a musky pretentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
What specially attracted her to them was not, perhaps, that they excelled the other passengers in luridness, but that they had the privilege of understanding, more or less, her language. From Wordnik.com. [The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala] Reference
This was comforting, for half the sky was barred with leaden cloud and the parched grass gleamed beneath it lividly white, while the light that struck a ridge-top here and there had a sinister luridness. From Wordnik.com. [The Intriguers] Reference
Imagination might have beheld a Last Day luridness in this red-coaled glow, which fell on his face and hand, and on hers, peering into the loose hair about her brow, and firing the delicate skin underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
The dreadful deed, which has filled our minds with horror, will be a growing vision of weird wickedness, shining with a strange luridness of its own, as one of the wildest tragedies of the world's most un. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.] Reference
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- the otherworldly luridness, the herky-jerky and freeze-frame of the broadband stream, the primary color bars of the test signal and the occasional black emptiness, this is our YouTubed mushroom cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore City Paper] Reference
Just when it appears that they’ve scaled new peaks, they manage to notch themselves up yet higher into the dizzying summits of luridness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference
Homes has “made a minor specialty of luridness,” only to contradict herself paragraphs later by characterizing Homes’s books as “sleek, violent cartoons.”. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Roiphe’s Critical Inadequacies: A Case Study : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The luridness of war was over everything. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Still, the mythic luridness of the spot lives on. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Porn Blog, Naked Men Pictures, Nude Males and Gay Erotica] Reference
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