luridness
Nouns
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(n) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
- the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation
- (n) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) achromasia, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, lividity,
- (n) the quality of being ghastly ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness,