lurid

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• Bear said Beute considered dropping the matter after he was cleared of the lurid allegation but ultimately pressed forward.

• This lurid embrace of art and life was not an isolated thunderclap.

• As she walked through the camp streets, she turned away lurid leers with a troubled glance.

• Then the locals arrived for water aerobics conducted by a Riviera coach in lurid pink-and-black Lycra to French pop.

• When my house got broken into, my political convictions were instantly replaced with lurid revenge fantasies.

• Late one August night in 2006, the always-lurid New York City tabloids had a story on their hands.

• It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.

• A lurid spot on each cheek showed burning red through the bronze of his skin.

• The economics of war, therefore, has thrown its lurid light upon the economics of peace.

• John Dickinson saw the matter in the same light, a light which his superior abilities enabled him to portray in more lurid colors.

• Eloise in her corner was holding fast to the strap, when a lurid flame filled the carriage for an instant with a blaze of light.