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What (who) is lurid - definition
lurid
1.
If you say that something is lurid, you are critical of it because it involves a lot of violence, sex, or shocking detail.
...lurid accounts of Claire's sexual exploits...
Some reports have contained lurid accounts of deaths and mutilations.
= sensational
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
• luridly
His cousin was soon cursing luridly.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
If you describe something as lurid, you do not like it because it is very brightly coloured.
She took care to paint her toe nails a lurid red or orange.
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
• luridly
It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
ADV: usu ADV adj/-ed
lurid
a.
Gloomy, murky, ghastly, dismal, pale, lowering.
Lurid
·adj Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
II. Lurid ·adj Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
III. Lurid ·adj Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
Examples of use of lurid
1. "Toxic", "poisonous", "lurid" – they all got a run–out.
2. They want something lurid or beyond normal imagination.
3. The second debate is equally lurid and driven by Americans.
4. The speaker stacks are pounding out lurid electro allsorts.
5. Iguanas dart across the trails in flashes of lurid green.