lurid
adjective
gruesome; horrible; revolting.
luridness
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a word derived from
lurid.
Example Sentences
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This plays out onstage with a level of luridness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Toward the end, “All Our Children” loses its vital restraint and teeters into luridness, but until then it makes compelling, conventional drama.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
“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
Groszinger tells reporters, apparently dismissing a genre viewed, in its luridness and fancy, not that differently from the work of the younger Vonnegut.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
As the conflict extended, it grew in bitterness, revealing with increasing luridness the insincerity and dishonesty of the Philippists.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
