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lurid🔊

Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex.

Melodramatic.

Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.

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Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.
The great banths sniffed the unfamiliar odours, and then with a rush they broke past us with low growls, swarming across the gardens beneath the lurid light of the nearer moon.

Being of a light yellow hue.

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It grew and its intensity deepened as it expanded, a widening disk of lurid light hovering against the dark velvet hangings of the opposite wall.

(botany) Having a brown color tinged with red.

(zoology) Having a color tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

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