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Recent Examples of luridly
This involved hanging and displaying the body in a luridly public cage.
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Tara Ramanathan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
The story was subbed, luridly headlined, set in type, and fitted lovingly into the front page.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Tara Ramanathan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
The story was subbed, luridly headlined, set in type, and fitted lovingly into the front page.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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.
—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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Astronomers have also spotted some enormous ellipticals that are conspicuously alone—ESO 306-17, for example, is more than a million light-years across but has no other galaxies nearby.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
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But once the vaults were finished, those lower-deck seats often looked conspicuously empty during Wizards games, especially late in the season as the Wizards lost 26 of their final 27 games.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Hazelnut brioches, flaky pastries, blueberry financiers, and madeleines—crafted by the French pastry chef—are neatly stacked in a room adorned with hot pink and coral Bill Bensley artwork.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
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Then, after banking as neatly as a flight of fighter planes, the flock of 20 mallards splashed down just out of range of our shotguns.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
Adverb
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Democrats, meanwhile, say the rhetoric sounds strikingly similar to the populist arguments advanced by the very progressives DeSantis routinely attacks.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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The service Service here is warm, intuitive, and strikingly informal.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adverb
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Every day, visitors arrive to dress in robes richly embroidered with phoenixes and adorn themselves with jade and pearl pendants and gold fingernail guards like those worn in imperial China.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 May 2026
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That wasn’t its only subject; comedy and power and misogyny and creativity and intergenerational conflict and work ethic and, especially in its last few seasons, the debased state of the entertainment industry were all richly explored through lines.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
Adverb
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The production’s hallmarks are the acting performances that are mostly quite strong, along with some scintillating technical aspects that affirm the show’s dystopian aims, unified smartly by Lisa Mallette’s active direction.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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But the players’ proposal smartly attacks the issue from the other direction.—
Dan Zaksheske,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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“Luridly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luridly. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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