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Luridness   Listen
Luridness

noun
1.
The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes.  Synonym: sensationalism.
2.
Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress).  Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness.
3.
The quality of being ghastly.  Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness.






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"Luridness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of their effect through exaggeration. On both sides there has been enlisted much loose statement, with some bad logic. It is, for instance, unreasonable to hold up the tobacco-plant to general indignation because Linnaeus classed it with the natural order Luridae,—since he attributed the luridness only to the color of those plants, not to their character. It is absurd to denounce it as belonging to the poisonous nightshade tribe, when the potato and the tomato also appertain to that perilous domestic circle. It is hardly fair even to complain of it for yielding ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various



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