lurid

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1 SHOCKa description, story etc that is lurid is deliberately shocking and involves sex or violence 耸人听闻的，可怕的〔指描述、故事等有性或暴力的内容〕 SYN explicit

lurid headlines

骇人听闻的标题

He told me in lurid detail what would happen to me.

他把我将会遇到的可怕事情详详细细地告诉了我。

2 CCBRIGHTtoo brightly coloured 色彩耀眼的，俗艳的 SYN gaudy

a lurid orange dress

一件俗气的橘黄色连衣裙

—luridly adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

lurid• These days the cast are younger and prettier, the stories more lurid.• When Margo Adams announced years ago that Wade Boggs had chartered her as a road-trip mistress, that was lurid.• The reader will not find lurid accounts of a vast, secret conspiracy coiled and ready to strike again.• Yellow street lamps looked lurid in the greyness.• A lurid miasma dazed his vision.• For good measure, he had added a lurid red moon opposite it.• lurid red nail polish• The injury done on that October night in Lambeth was certainly a lurid reminder of the reality of extremist campaigning.• details of lurid sexual misconduct• The carpets were a lurid shade of green.

Origin lurid

(1600-1700) Latin luridus “pale yellow”, from luror “pale yellow color”

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