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palidez

Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

      palidez
      Portuguese
      sensacionalismo

      The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes.

            sensacionalismo

            The quality of being ghastly.

                  1
                  Beyond the window, the lightning flashed with an awful luridness upon the rushing hail.
                  The Way of an Eagle
                  2
                  The luridness of war was over everything.
                  The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. / The...
                  3
                  The clinical mood of the video is intentional, in order to remove anything associated with luridness or pornography.
                  Ebony