What's the difference between livid and lurid?

Livid


Definition:

  • (a.) Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
  • (2) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
  • (3) While we could suppress the hyperhidrosis with topical therapy, this failed to clear his hyperkeratosis or eliminate the livid color.
  • (4) Republicans in turn are livid that national Democratic party money has already been spent trying to sway voters in the primary election battle between Tillis and Brannon.
  • (5) That's a bad hockey play and Rangers fans will be livid.
  • (6) The external data of lividity, rigor, mechanical and electrical excitability of facial muscles and the chemical excitability of the iris have all been gathered from literature, chronologically arranged and clearly presented.
  • (7) In our experimental settings we observed appearance of circumscribed linear marks of pallor similar to electric lesions in the region of postmortem lividity of corpses at the same level as bathtub water.
  • (8) He began to talk to Russian and European space agencies about launching Cobe, but when Nasa got wind of this, its officials were livid.
  • (9) Acral ischemia with lividity is a well-described dermatologic sign in the myeloproliferative diseases polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.
  • (10) The hawkish American law professor Alan Dershowitz, livid that Finkelstein had been invited in the first place, inserted himself into the affair, writing a thundering editorial in the Jerusalem Post.
  • (11) Not only hyperhidrosis was abolished, but associated symptoms, such as lividity of palms or soles, acral hypothermia and edema of fingers or toes, also subsided.
  • (12) It's worth remembering the details of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ’s sale for $7.8bn (now valued at $122b n) and its recent $5.8b n dividend for 2013 they are understandably livid towards the insanity of the cult of privatisation.
  • (13) Symmetrical lividity (SL) was the term coined by Pernet in 1925 for symmetrical, bluish-red plaques on the soles of the feet, accompanied by hyperhidrosis and not corresponding to areas of pressure or patterns of innervation.
  • (14) The behaviour of post-mortem lividity at the shackle-point and its surrounding areas in some cases may allow to draw a conclusion, if shackle occurred during life or after death.
  • (15) My roommate chimed in, “Well, if she was that drunk, then she deserved to get raped.” I was livid and vehemently defended the victim, and this was before I had even processed the sexual assault perpetrated against me.
  • (16) 20 December TB was livid that GB, without any consultation at all, wrote off third world debt – £155m over 10 years – while telling us he could do nothing more for the NHS to pre-empt a winter crisis.
  • (17) Six weeks after a holiday trip to Yugoslavia, a previously well 48-year-old man developed a reddish-livid, firm nodule, 0.5 cm in diameter, on the proximal joint of the right thumb.
  • (18) Moreover she had a ;moon face', hypertension, a ;buffalo hump', and livid striae of the loins and hypogastrium.
  • (19) Some of those yet to receive ballot papers include family members of people working on the leadership campaigns, as well as the Guardian journalist John Harris, who said he was livid about the lack of vote and inability to get through to the party on its helpline.
  • (20) Thousands of them rattling at once sounds like the stadium is full of livid snakes.

Lurid


Definition:

  • (a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
  • (a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
  • (a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
  • (2) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (3) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
  • (4) The lurid crotch-grabbing routine has, admittedly, been refined.
  • (5) For more than two weeks, the prince and his advisers have been wrestling with how to handle what they have described as “lurid and deeply personal” allegations.
  • (6) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (7) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (8) Indeed, fresh evidence of the kind of procedures to which some of those seeking asylum have been subjected was highlighted just a few days after the speech when leaked Home Office documents revealed that lurid questions had been asked of some claimants by Home Office officials.
  • (9) Reading the first, I felt like I did as a child when I accepted a luridly illustrated magazine about the end of the world from a Jehovah's Witness because I thought it was a comic.
  • (10) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
  • (11) The 1970s then saw Spark flitting edgily between a harsh, lurid satire and something close to the French nouveau roman.
  • (12) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (13) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
  • (14) It has taken place largely in the shadows, save for the odd glitzy press conference or unveiling of celebrity backers, and lacked the drama of dawn raids in five star Zurich hotels or lurid tales of bribes and backhanders.
  • (15) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (16) Yet the only sea here is one of constant traffic, dominated by deregulated buses painted colours brighter and more lurid than anything found beside or beneath the ocean.
  • (17) When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
  • (18) The reporting tends to concentrate on lurid details.
  • (19) And here Miliband is convinced that George Osborne blundered in December by committing the Tories to cuts that would, in the Labour leader’s lurid terms, amount to “shredding the NHS” and other vital services.
  • (20) Unless we fundamentally reshape out economy we will only be able ever to compensate people for unfairness and inequality.” Painting as lurid a picture of the Tory spending plans as possible he will also say: “This is now a fight for the soul of our country.