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Recent Examples of luridly
The horror comes from the violation of a group meant to exist in harmony — featuring a cast of real dancers as the luridly fluid characters — being thrown violently out of sync, like a body spasming.
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Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
But Masumura’s manner is raw and harsh, a cinematic parallel to pulp fiction, with intense emotional and physical violence, candid and heated eroticism, hectic performances, and luridly skewed visual compositions.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for luridly
Adverb
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The first volume cast a wide net, encompassing iconic composers from Brazil (Jobim), Chile (Violeta Parra), and Argentina (Piazzolla), with Venezuela conspicuously not represented.—
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This year, too many new shows, specifically from the second-half of 2025, were conspicuously absent from the Actors Awards.—
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And not everything has to be tied up neatly in a bow.—
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Not all issues fit neatly into the affordability frame.—
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Its strikingly unusual forms might have risen from the ooze of the adjacent La Brea Tar Pits.—
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In a sea of dresses and conventional silhouettes, the Armani suit read as deliberate and modern, strikingly different from the rest.—
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Filled with richly varied locales and only three hours ahead of Central Standard Time, Brazil seemed tailor-made.—
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Traditionally eaten on New Year's Day—whether cooked with black-eyed peas or collard greens—this richly marbled cut of pork is both a comfort food and tradition.—
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The film smartly foreshadows what will befall Alma and Maggie and Hank.—
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So this is clearly now a multi-year rebuild; any hopes that this could be a patch-job (smartly filling a few needs but keeping most of these players) logically were eliminated in lopsided losses to Pittsburgh and New England.—
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“Luridly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luridly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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