Shocking or horrifying; melodramatic.
The lurid story kept her up all night.He always reads the most lurid books. That is a lurid movie.
There are but two syllables in 'lurid'.
The murder was especially gruesome and the newspaper reporter wrote a LURID account of it.
The principal had the boys remove their lurid drawings from the school walls. The shirt was coloured a lurid pink, creating an unpleasant effect.
To provoke or shock, as in the short sentence: a lurid account of the crime. Shocking or outrageous behavior
Lurid Tales The Castle Queen - 1997 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
Lurid Tales The Castle Queen - 1997 was released on: USA: 26 August 1997 (video premiere)
In "The Case of the Lurid Letter," the murderer is revealed to be Lord Mountjoy. He kills his wife after discovering that she was involved in a scandalous affair, which is linked to the lurid letter at the center of the investigation. Sherlock Holmes deduces the truth through careful analysis of the evidence and the circumstances surrounding the case.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a slang term for a dime novel. These were short books, usually melodramatic and lurid, that were produced periodically.
Pulp, when used to mean trashy or lurid, would have antonyms of clean or moral.
A post-modern literary genre ,a publication, such as a magazine or book, containing lurid subject matter.
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