When people are lured into looking at something, they may be drawn to it because it's a shocking, graphic, or horrible scene, something lurid and very vivid that pulls them in. Your mother might complain that she hates lurid TV shows ones that are overly sensationalized and meant to shock.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Adjective S.
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
Adjective S.
ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
Adjective S.
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
Adjective S.
horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
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.
Lurid
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.2.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Usage Examples
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
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