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  1. 1. a. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. horrible in fierceness or savagery Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke Source: wordnet
  7. 7. adj. ghastly pale Source: wordnet
  8. 8. 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson. 2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. 3. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. Source: webster
  9. 9. Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen throughsmoke. Source: adambom
  10. 10. j:100 s. horrible in fierceness or savagery s. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism s. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke s. ghastly pale Source: ecdict

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