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[ UK /lˈɔːɹɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫʊɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
    a lurid sunset
    lurid flames
  2. horrible in fierceness or savagery
    lurid crimes
    a lurid life
  3. ghastly pale
    moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence
  4. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    lurid details of the accident

How To Use lurid In A Sentence

  • Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
  • More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a fantastically good-looking car in the metal, especially when painted in the lurid shade of orange this model is sporting. Times, Sunday Times
  • The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
  • Less than two years later, he and his partners sold their newly acquired Telluride land for $4.2 million — more than six times what federal appraisers had said it was worth. 'The Buzzard of Backcountry' Strikes It Rich in National Parks
  • From the takeout near Durango, teams would bike, trek, and rappel roughly 55 miles back to Telluride.
  • There were lurid allegations made, which he says are untrue. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
  • He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion.
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