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• n  the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
• n  unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
• n  the quality of being ghastly

• The total number of deaths and the luridness of detail seem to grow as they are passed from traveler to traveler.
• First, there is the sheer luridness of the case.
• The luridness, at times, seems used for corn rather than comedy.

• sensationalism
• lividness
• lividity
• paleness
• pallidness
• pallor
• wanness
• achromasia
• ghastliness
• grimness
• gruesomeness