luridin a sentence
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Her blog specializes in sharing lurid details of horrible crimes.lurid = shocking and disturbing
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I'll spare you the lurid details.
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She creates paintings in lurid colors.lurid = surprisingly vivid (bright or deep)
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The walls were all covered with large, lurid pink flowers. (source)lurid = surprisingly brightly colored
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She found me reading a book one day called, The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall. (source)Lurid = shocking and disturbing
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Dickens, who could be very suggestive, was aware that his novels were often read around the family breakfast table, and he wanted to protect children from anything luridly sexual, as well as to provide wives with plausible deniability.† (source)luridly = shocking
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Tonight there's a lurid sunset, taking its time to fade.† (source)
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I saw the figures dancing luridly, the lights flashing, the band going.† (source)luridly = shocking
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Contrary to almost everything he'd read about their luridness, he found them long and boring.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Something more lurid.† (source)
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I didn't need to know the topic to know what he'd seen; for the most part, they all featured the same disgusting topics, told as luridly as possible by guests whose single goal, it seemed, was to be on television, no matter how degraded they were made to look.† (source)
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Imagination might have beheld a Last Day luridness in this red-coaled glow, which fell on his face and hand, and on hers, peering into the loose hair about her brow, and firing the delicate skin underneath.† (source)
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Artists demonized John Wilkes Booth with lurid pictures of him as the devil's disciple.† (source)
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In the corner, a neat stack of American magazines features page after page of luridly sculpted men in contorted poses.† (source)
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No other country in the world had been subjected to as much "idiotic commentary," he said, and it would have been hard to argue the point, given the fact that, for instance, the name of Haiti's indigenous religion had long since become the synonym for crazy ideas and sheer luridness.† (source)
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The title was lurid red: KING OF SPARTA.† (source)
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