Examples of 'lurid' in a sentence
Meaning of "lurid"
Lurid: Describes something presented in a shocking or sensational way, often involving explicit details that are meant to provoke interest or excitement
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- Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex.
- Melodramatic.
- Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
- Being of a light yellow hue.
How to use "lurid" in a sentence
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A sort of lurid chill goes up and down my spine.
People are always looking for lurid details.
He performed lurid acts upon me and my person.
If you will permit a rather lurid analogy.
Lurid little books for untrained minds.
It will be two days of lurid medical discussions.
Who would ever believe anything so lurid.
Clearly the lurid and salacious details.
I could recall some of them in lurid detail.
These days the lurid pictures of corpses are gone.
That is a rumour of the more lurid type.
You knowl hate lurid subjects like that.
Lurid covers and insect stains.
You are off on some lurid little disciplinary fantasy.
Lurid literature encouraged sex among family members.
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A story of love and lurid lust in the dust.
Lurid sanguinary red indicates sensuality.
Their eyes are a lurid yellow color.
He was a writer and so his descriptions tended to be a little lurid.
And there is nothing lurid about this relationship.
The email trail here is all too lurid.
There are no lurid shots of grandchildren there.
For light from out the lurid sea.
You have a lurid imagination.
There was no need to own up to them in such lurid detail.
Lurid and possibly wrong.
No wonder you know all the lurid details.
He even wrote a lurid account that was published in the tabloids.
He will fill in the lurid details.
What a lurid little dive.
Each one ending in lurid scandal.
Occasionally censorship even made things more lurid.
With all the lurid details.
Perhaps not the most lurid.
Linus is sometimes a touch lurid in his turn of phrase.
Lurid headlines about the sex lives of the stars.
Les have some lurid details.
And the circumstances were lurid.
And all those lurid parties.
The story of his disappearance from publication is not lurid.
Let us have some lurid details.
Lurid is more like it.
Leave out the lurid details.
The testimony was properly lurid.
You have read too many lurid newspaper articles.
There are plenty of tumultuous historical movements to serve as lurid examples.
At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement.
So this is where you research all your lurid articles.
To do this they use lurid scenes to titillate the senses.
That is a positively lurid idea.
