Lurid /(?)/

Lu·rid

Lurid

a.
  1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
    Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
    Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.
  2. Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. (Bot.)
  3. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. (Zool.)
  4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.