Crossword-Solution: LURID 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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

We have 120 clues for the answer “LURID”

Clue	Answers
Appealingly shocking	1 answer
Cheaply sensational	1 answer
Designed to pique interest, say	1 answer
Fit for tabloids	1 answer
Giving a ghastly light.	1 answer
Glaringly sensational	1 answer
Glaringly vivid	1 answer
Glaringly vivid and graphic	1 answer
Glowing through a haze	1 answer
Gruesome, as some details	1 answer
Gruesomely graphic	1 answer
Gruesomely sensational	1 answer
Gruesomely shocking	1 answer
Hard on the eyes, color-wise	1 answer
Harshly colorful	1 answer
Harshly vivid.	1 answer
Headline-screaming	1 answer
Horribly shocking	1 answer
Horrifying; sensational	1 answer
In vivid detail	1 answer
Lake tabloid shockers	1 answer
Like a sensational description	1 answer
Like appealingly shocking details	1 answer
Like many a "man bites dog" story	1 answer
Like many tabloid articles	1 answer
Like many tabloid stories	1 answer
Like many true-crime dramas	1 answer
Like much tabloid fodder	1 answer
Like overly graphic tabloid stories	1 answer
Like pulp magazine details	1 answer
Like pulp magazines	1 answer
Like some clickbait headlines	1 answer
Like some tabloid headlines	1 answer
Like some tabloid stories	1 answer
Like supermarket tabloids	1 answer
Like tabloid headlines	1 answer
Like tabloid stories	1 answer
Like tabloid writing	1 answer
Like the headline "ELVIS FATHERED MY ALIEN BABY"	1 answer
Like the tabloids	1 answer
Marked by sensationalism	1 answer
Ominously vivid.	1 answer
Overly attention-getting	1 answer
Overly graphic	1 answer
Perfect for the tabloid headlines	1 answer
Perfect for the tabloids	1 answer
Sensational and melodramatic	1 answer
Sensational, tabloid-style	1 answer
Sensationalized	1 answer
Shocking (5)	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with LURID (5)

Troy looked in, dropped his wife’s hand, knowledge of it all came over him in a lurid sheen, and he stood still.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt—pink under the lurid sky.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

The sun, shining through the smoke that drove up from the tops of the trees, seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with LURID (3)

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass examp…

Herman Wouk Don't Stop the Carnival

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Joanne Harris Chocolat

But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong! Thirst of revenge, the powerless will Still baffled, and yet burning still! Desire with loathing strangely mixed On wild or hateful objects fixed. Fantastic passions! maddening brawl! And shame and terror over all! Deeds to be hid which were no…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Complete Poems

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 187 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).