Crossword clues for luridness
Wiktionary
luridness
n. The property of being lurid.
WordNet
luridness
n. the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism]
unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia]
the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness]
Usage examples of "luridness".
Elsewhere, though, half a dozen blobs of dancing, spitting luridness fled from them.
Reflexively she glanced across at Myra, who was engrossed once more in the endlessly elaborating luridness of her softwall soap.