In this sense it came to be used particularly in phrases like "livid with fury" for a person pale with anger.
The images of suffering have more impact when they contain one or two figures whose punishment is depicted in livid detail (71v and 67r).
I was worried by that, and my constituent was more than worried: he was livid.
Everyone who livid on the spot had the opportunity of putting their fears to those who were hoping to build the reservoir.
We have devised a system about which the gainers feel guilty and the losers feel livid.
To put this initial burden on them will make them livid.
I was livid; it was a new car.
He is livid that some bureaucrat has forced him to take out an annuity when he had continued to make pension contributions year after year.
