purple
Example Sentences
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When Ms. Diski acted like the teenager she was, sneaking out of windows or bringing boys home, Lessing would become empurpled with rage.
From New York Times • May 1, 2016
Every grand action is followed by a great, empurpled outpouring of words.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2016
Ms. Buffini’s script, while it trims and winnows some of Brontë’s empurpled passages, preserves important elements of the author’s language, including, above all, Jane’s repeated invocations of freedom as an ethical and personal ideal.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011
"There's no bad feeling at all on my part," security guard said, presumably while having the lingering personalized of Terry's front bumper tattooed on to his empurpled shin for posterity.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2010
Its face was empurpled with rage at its limited dominion.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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