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Adverb for presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms
“It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines.”
Adverb for horrifying or disturbing in nature
“The lurid tales of violence and threats of widespread destruction appeared in almost every news sheet.”
Adverb for having a raunchy or ribald quality or character
“An organization succeeded in having the book banned, and later editions were printed with some of the more lurid scenes removed.”
Adverb for unpleasantly bright in color, creating a harsh or unnatural effect
“When they emerge in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colors that you want to kick them, not pick them.”
Adverb for ghastly, pale, wan in appearance
“Marcellus has preserved the following prescription which this prince used to prescribe for diseases of the liver and spleen, for dropsy, and for improving a lurid complexion.”
Adverb for pleasantly and sensually exciting
Adverb for disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying
Adverb for giving clear and vividly explicit details
Adverb for inhumanly or outrageously evil or immorally wrong
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