Modifies a noun

• headline: The lurid headlines in lesser organs are clearly part of the plan to keep the populace in a state of fear.

• tale: For example, during the World Cup, the tabloid newspapers here were as full of lurid tales ab.. .

• allegation: Mr Sheridan is suing the newspaper over lurid allegations about his private life in a series of articles.

• slide: Some lurid slides showed how hard Dempsey was having to push in his efforts to respond.

• story: Horror stories - Comment - Times Online You can get those lurid supermarket tabloid stories at the click of a mouse.

• color: Presumably the lurid colors chosen for the front covers were designed to attract this type of buyer.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: An example of the rather lurid Taylor coloring scheme is shown here.

• too: Here, again, there is no need to paint too lurid a picture.

• increasingly: Since their introduction in 1971, these health warnings have become increasingly lurid.

• particularly: Let me give just one example, not a particularly lurid one, of the misunderstandings and misrepresentations that abound.

• fairly: It certainly looks quite different in the flesh - the designs which simply looked bright and cheerful on tv looked fairly lurid on stage.

• very: I wrote a lot of very lurid, melodramatic stories about people being trapped by the tide and swept away by whirlpools.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Since their introduction in 1971, these health warnings have become increasingly lurid.