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Once just shorthand for a tour bundling transport and lodging, these days it carries dingier connotations: high-rise hotels, beaches crammed with blistering bodies, lurid cocktails slurped from exposed belly buttons.
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.
In particular, the use of lurid colour seems to anticipate both the fauvists and the impressionists, while the identification of the body as a site of polymorphous perversity leads us straight into the realms of the surrealists.
Hunting parties, expensive gifts, drunken car crashes, secret police wiretaps, paper bags stuffed with money and public budgets being treated as private accounts all feature in the lurid revelations and allegations being leaked daily on to the front pages of central Europe.
The surveys were conducted before Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, launched a lurid assault on Miliband's character, claiming anyone who was willing to stab his brother in the back to win the Labour leadership would be willing to stab the UK national security in the back to become prime minister.
It's certainly difficult to find much meaning in Maupassant's final years, which were as lurid as any plot he ever concocted.
They will be standing there with their props – typically, a flip chart with a lot of important-looking word clusters, a vase of lurid flowers, a Buddha head, or an Indian fretwork screen – but they won't be saying anything with real-world traction; it's usually head-bangingly content-free.
The lurid coverage by government-controlled media has reinforced suspicions among Anwar's supporters that the cards are stacked against their man.
Then, even further off the tourist trail is the jangly, youthful little Asia that's Outer Sunset along Irving St, all boba tea joints (people queue outside TPumps!) and lurid Chinese bakeries.
Viewers are rightly horrified about the child endangerment issue, but also at the lurid twist their favourite show has taken.
Rooms from $130 plus tax, +1 216 861 0001, comfortinn.com Stonover doesn't have a lurid history peppered with casualties.
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Lurid primarily functions as an adjective. It modifies nouns to describe something that is shockingly vivid, sensational, or explicitly detailed in a way that is often distasteful. Ludwig AI confirms the word's correct usage in numerous examples, showcasing its role in adding impactful descriptions.
Expression frequency: Very common
