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Definition
shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected
- The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of childhood's spectrum.3.3 — Act 3 Scene 3 (1% in)
- ] Blanche: Don't come in here [Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche.3.10 — Act 3 Scene 10 (67% in)
- The shadows and lurid reflections move sinuously as flames along the wall spaces.3.10 — Act 3 Scene 10 (73% in)
- The atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night.3.11 — Act 3 Scene 11 (2% in)
- Lurid reflections appear on the walls in odd, sinuous shapes.3.11 — Act 3 Scene 11 (64% in)
- The lurid reflections fade from the walls, the inhuman cries and noises die out and her own hoarse crying is calmed.3.11 — Act 3 Scene 11 (88% in)
There are no more uses of "lurid" in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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