salacious, sordid, titillating, tawdry, seamy, grisly, scandalous, gruesome, racy, raunchy, sensational, bizarre, prurient, saucy, gory, unflattering, smutty, horrifying, unsavory, ghastly, lascivious, grotesque, unedifying, shocking, sleazy, sadomasochistic, unsavoury, vivid, banal, tabloid, kinky, outlandish, gossipy, graphic, erotic, steamy, indelicate, horrific, startling, sensationalist, vile, porny, sexcapade, scurrilous, macabre, repulsive, ribald, grand guignol, harrowing, riveting, vulgar, nauseating, bodice ripper, phantasmagoric, nightmarish, seedy, orgiastic, unrevealing, fanciful, risque, pornographic, sapphic, garish, lewd, sketchiest, farcical, trashy, florid, breathless, juiciest, autoerotic, damning, melodramatic, homoerotic, adulterous, suggestive, noirish, licentious, fetishistic, unsettling, tantalizing, colorful, flirtatious, puerile, surreal, dostoyevskian, debauched, revelatory, rabelaisian, femmes fatales, bawdier, unsensational, bacchanalian, soap opera, indiscreet, fantastical, hyperbolized, lustful, scintillating, nabokovian, lusty, amatory, redolent, cloudy, mountainous, partake, abounds, absorbing, blind, brighter, cheerful, coloured, cool, disappearing, foreign, fraught, overcast, positive, rainwater, raw, reminiscent, rye, roseate, colourful, romanticized, sombre, ruddy, surrealistic, bright, bluish, coppery, dazzling, lambent

ballyhoo artist, luridly, sensationalist

colorless, colourless, violent