lurid

Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.

The accident was described with lurid detail.

Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.

Melodramatic.

Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.

Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;

Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.

Being of a light yellow hue.

The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.

Having a brown colour tinged with red.

a lurid plant with maroon leaves and pink flowers