(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.
Sensationalist
Definition:
(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
(n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) We had achieved so much in just a few hours, if the Liberal Democrats and Tories believe that the sensationalist reporting of a small minority's actions will somehow distract from the whole they are wrong.
(2) Stone says she sees a connection between sensationalist headlines and the kind of abuse she used to encounter regularly six years ago in Cambridge.
(3) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(4) The film woudn’t have had to become sensationalistic, but finding some sources of conflict, either internal or external, that went beyond the usual Republican-Democrat sparring would have saved it from some longuers .
(5) India's often ruthless and sensationalistic media had agreed to stay away.
(6) "We are the first to concede that much more work lies ahead of us, but we refuse to accept the sensationalist, media-oriented declarations of any group, especially when they are carping and filled with incorrect information.
(7) Osborne told the BBC in an interview recorded last Thursday after his remarks about Philpott: "I think where there's been division is when you get pressure groups and sensationalist media reports.
(8) Now that the first step has been taken and the problem has been acknowledged, the debate about how to reconcile our cherished rights and values is too important and intricate to be left to the simplified and sensationalist slogan of 'the right to be forgotten'.
(9) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
(10) We are really frustrated with the number of sensationalist claims that are being made, not just about TalkTalk as a company but more importantly about customers losing millions and millions of pounds,” she said.
(11) "The ever-increasing pressures on the Parole Board to 'get it right' all the time are at least partially driven by sensationalist and relentless reporting of cases where people released by the Parole Board have gone on to commit appalling crimes," the report says.
(12) The coverage of Muslims in mainstream media continues to be very negative and there are too many sensationalist headlines that generalise about Muslims.
(13) This misguided, sensationalist and uncorroborated journalism only serves to direct attention away from the actual perpetrators in Egypt.
(14) The author examined four weeks of stories on the Associated Press Videotext service in early 1986 in an effort to evaluate the validity of critics' charges that journalists were over-emphasizing the role of homosexuals in the progress of the disease, and that their stories were laden with negative or sensationalistic terms.
(15) In 2007 I was accused of being a “sensationalist and scaremonger” by the UK Department of Health’s chief nursing officer after I’d said the problem of antibiotic resistance affected thousands of hospital patients – and would get much worse if something wasn’t done.
(16) In recent years, more and more interpersonal problems and issues have been discussed using highly sensationalist analogies with slavery.
(17) Then she vanished, sparking a police hunt, a murder inquiry and a narrative that has gripped the nation, culminating in an arrest that caused such a media stir that the attorney general warned against sensationalist reporting.
(18) Stewart Frater (@stewart_frater) Ed Miliband has the charisma of a shoelace #Miliband January 17, 2014 @SymonHill seemed to take issue with the reactionary and sensationalist commentary found on social media, particularly in the context of bipartisan politics.
(19) However, I do think that there has been a lot of sensationalist material put out there and maybe the time is coming that the government tries to start putting forward a constructive public health message that prepares the population with the correct information because knowledge is power essentially and if you have the right knowledge then you can feel secure in yourself.” “The essence to a public health message would be to keep it simple.
(20) The governing body described the claims as “sensationalist and confusing” while Lord Coe, an IAAF vice-president who is running for the organisation’s presidency, described the accusations as “a declaration of war on my sport” .