Lurid
Lurid , adjective
[Latin luridus.]
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.
(Botany) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3.
(Zoology) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
4.
Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.