Meanings (ES + gloss)
chocante • espantoso
Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.
Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.
The accident was described with lurid detail.
lívido • pálido
Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;
Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.
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