lurid

Example Sentences

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What’s in it for one of the most elitist luxury watchmakers in the world to lend its name to a lurid $400 plastic watch?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The chimp war study went viral for a variety of reasons, not least of them the lurid spectacle of a species other than our own committing despicable acts.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Kino’s hypocrisy stems from the same swamp as the original’s fictitious Dr. Gröss, whose lurid footage climaxed with a tsk-tsking screed against poverty, pollution and fascism as major contributors to the global death toll.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

But there was much more enthusiasm from the Telegraph's Robbie Collin, who awarded a maximum five stars, lauding it as "resplendently lurid, oozy and wild."

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Dawn breaks, the sun’s rays tracing the sky above Blackcliff’s ebony belltower like bloodied fingers, tingeing everyone in the courtyard a lurid red.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir