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• s  horrible in fierceness or savagery
  lurid crimes
  a lurid life
• s  glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  lurid details of the accident
• s  shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
  a lurid sunset
  lurid flames
• s  ghastly pale
  moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence

• Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder for everything from a failed Broadway musical to Jackie Susann's trash classics to a fictionalized portrait in Miller's play After the Fall.
• All right, the subjects are often lurid and even bizarre.
• Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence.

• shocking

News & Articles

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• Police: Old Hickory man arrested after lurid, pornographic chats with minors
  Metro police arrested a 44-year-old Old Hickory man they say carried on lurid and pornographic conversations with minors on a social networking site.
  June 18, 2013 - The Tennessean
• Parkland man accused of trying to lure girl, 13, into sex via text
  A 34-year-old man thought he was sending lurid sex texts to a 13-year-old girl, but it was an undercover detective who was intercepting and responding to the messages, a police report shows.        
  June 18, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel
• Guy Rocha: Was Sen. Pittman really put on ice?
  This is among the most lurid and grotesque of Nevada’s folk tales. U.S. Sen. Key Pittman died on Nov. 10, 1940, only five days after handily winning re-election. For years, stories have circulated that Pittman actually died before the election and his death was covered up.
  June 16, 2013 - Reno Gazette-Journal

Quotes

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• Robert Crumb in New York Times
  It's very visual,Mr. Crumb said, according to The Guardian. "It's lurid. Full of all kinds of crazy, weird things that will really surprise people."
• Mark Gatiss in WalesOnline
  Gatiss said: "The fact that Steven, myself and millions of others are still addicted to Conan Doyle's brilliant stories is testament to their indestructibility." "They're as vital, lurid, thrill- ing and wonderful as they ever were."...
• Marty Markowitz in San Francisco Chronicle
  The 350 cookies stuffed with "the most graphically lurid" fortunes got mixed up with a batch of 1,750 cookies ordered for the Chinese New Year event, Borough President Marty Markowitz said Friday.