lurid
adjective
gruesome; horrible; revolting.
luridness
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a word derived from
lurid.
Example Sentences
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Neon has been trendy in movies for at least a few years now, the lighting of choice for filmmakers looking to convey the hipness of a party scene or the luridness of an action sequence.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2018
“The NEA hubbub,” writes Thompson, “was an opportunity to condemn luridness and bask in it in equal measure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
Duncan has sometimes been grouped with writers like Christopher Pike or R. L. Stine, but her novels lack the comic, pulpy luridness of their work.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2016
A play whose extreme luridness is matched, and even trumped, by its intelligence, “Mercury Fur” is sensational in pretty much every sense of the word.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
This was comforting, because 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 Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss
