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luridly

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lu·rid  (lrd)
adj.
1. Causing shock or horror; gruesome.
2. Marked by sensationalism: a lurid account of the crime. See Synonyms at ghastly.
3. Glowing or shining with the glare of fire through a haze: lurid flames.
4. Sallow or pallid in color.
[Latin lridus, pale, from lror, paleness.]
lurid·ly adv.
lurid·ness n.
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Adv.1.luridly - in a lurid manner; "it was luridly described in the book as the place where mystics took refuge"


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He swore luridly, for he felt that it was degradation for one who aimed to be some vague soldier, or a man of blood with a sort of sublime license, to be taken home by a father.
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She turned a coppery hue, then that portion of her surface which was unobscured as yet grew grey and ashen, and at length, as totality approached, her mountains and her plains were to be seen glowing luridly through a crimson gloom.
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