noun
- The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes.
- usage: "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- synonyms: sensationalism
- Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress.
- synonyms: lividness, lividity, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia
- The quality of being ghastly.
- synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness
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