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luridly

adverb

Definition of luridly

as in conspicuously

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Recent Examples of luridly The frame is squarish in shape, recalling the years before wide-screens were widespread; the colors, especially the flesh tones, are luridly oversaturated. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026 His corpse was luridly blown up on a projector, streaming live on the Law&Crime YouTube channel, naked and dead. — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 This involved hanging and displaying the body in a luridly public cage. — 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

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Advanced features like secure sharing and digital inheritance are conspicuously absent.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
Seated nearby were Sam Altman of OpenAI and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei conspicuously absent.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of conspicuously

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Six decades later, its themes of exclusion, abuse and violence remain strikingly relevant.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Also strikingly forward-thinking given the surroundings—chandeliers, parquet floors, coffered ceilings—was the choice to end the evening with a performance by Danish punk rock group, Iceage.

— Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of strikingly

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Wiener not only leaves behind a richly complex body of work straddling textiles, painting, photographs, and collages, but also a career intricately connected to one of the most important chapters of Austrian art.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
And it was richly deserved, according to Purdue University, which created the international award and named it after perhaps its most famous alumnus.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of richly

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Incredibly easy to style, these effortless shoes pair casually with jeans, smartly with trousers or a skirt, or elegantly with your favorite fall dress.

— Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2026
There was nothing that had escaped being stamped with the Festival’s ubiquitous emblem–sweets, cigarettes, perfume, even sandals–Specially designed to keep you cool and smartly shod for fun-loving Festival walking!

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

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