rouged

Example Sentences

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Don’t let the rouged cheeks and Shirley Temple curls fool you.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025

“I found her unfamiliar, rouged like a corpse, her tumid ankles peeking out, inflated and purple,” Rowbottom writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018

I remember him telling my brothers and me, after his father died, that he hadn’t been able to look into the open casket, because the morticians had rouged his father’s cheeks.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

Ronald Reagan, with his strange, molded, too-dark hair and rouged cheeks and permanent smile, was everything horrifying about the phrase “All-American”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2016

Her lips were deeply reddened, her cheeks rouged, her nose powdered; there was even a touch of something under the eyes to make them brighter.

From "1984" by George Orwell