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lurid

English

  1. 🔊 shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
    “a lurid sunset”
  2. 🔊 ghastly pale
    “moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence”
  3. 🔊 glaringly vivid and graphic
    “lurid details of the accident”
  4. 🔊 horrible in fierceness or savagery
    “lurid crimes”

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