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lurid
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Definition:so shockingly vivid in color that it looks unnatural
painting: by Matisse, (1905) https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/portrait-of-madame-matisse-green-stripe-1905
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Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened. It was night, and the white faces and scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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see if my lipstick is all right, whether the feathers are too ridiculous, too frowzy. In this light I must look lurid.
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The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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he changed his mind and sat down again at the open pane to bathe in the cold air and gaze at the exquisite lines of the cross, silent, but full of meaning for him, and the mounting lurid yellow star.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Because of the lurid tales we read and our vivid imaginations and, probably, memories of our brief but hectic lives, Bailey and I were afflicted—he physically and I mentally.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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