Preposition: about

• way: A source is quoted by Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying " Ed was livid about the way Jude publicly humiliated Sienna.

Preposition: with

• rage: Benn's speech at the first party conference after the election had many former ministers almost literally livid with rage.

• anger: When Crassus heard this, the face of the Dives went livid with anger.

Modifies a noun

• face: The last conscious effort which imagination made was to show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist.

• scar: Running along the length of his thumb is a livid scar where the digit was dislocated during an anti-government demonstration.

• light: A livid green light flowed into the corridor behind them.

• sunset: Through that limited aperture they could see nothing but the two legs black against the reflection of a pale and livid sunset.

• white: It was of a livid chalky white, and with something set and rigid about it which was shockingly unnatural.

• mark: The livid strawberry mark was there for all to see.

Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: He mentions that Kenton is not expecting Ruth to be at the meeting on Sunday, at which David is absolutely livid.

• still: This cost the Commode D ' Or dearly - the WWW is still livid!

• obviously: Some of the contributors were quite obviously livid with rage and other volatile emotions.

• perfectly: He was perfectly livid, tho I noticed that his passengers and/or crew remained staring intently at the other bank.

• quite: By September they are everywhere, hanging from their trees in beautiful bunches of tiny black berries, often with quite livid red stalks.

Used with adjective complement

• go: Sir, you may speak. ' Lefaucheux had gone livid.