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ruddy

[ruhd-ee] / ˈrʌd i /


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Training her sights on a ruddy Sean Penn, Glaser remarked on Hollywood’s obsession with looking younger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

The neighbor was a man in his early 40s, slim with jet-black hair, narrow eyes, and ruddy skin.

From Slate Feb. 10, 2025

Blue eyes, ruddy complexion and light brown hair, he reminded her of her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

Approximately 300 million radio listeners tuned in to hear live sporting news from Berlin, and the film cuts to what feels like all of them rooting on these tall, ruddy and heroic amateurs.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2023

His normally ruddy face had gone the color of parchment.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

“Within six months to a year they start to virilize — getting facial hair, a ruddier complexion, a change in body odor and a deepening of the voice.”

From Washington Post Jul. 20, 2018

Upon Oswald’s return from Russia, family members noted that he had lost some hair and weight, while his complexion appeared ruddier.

From Slate Nov. 22, 2013

If “The Fitzgerald Family Christmas” revisits the world of “The Brothers McMullen,” the names have changed, and Mr. Burns is stouter and ruddier than he was 17 years ago.

From New York Times Dec. 7, 2012

This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oppie’s hair had turned silvery; he seemed ruddier and less gaunt than Lilienthal remembered from the last time they had seen each other.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Suddenly, Newsom started appearing in places such as Bakersfield, Redding and Colusa, among the ruddiest parts of red California.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2024

"If you could see my whole family congregated together, you would see every tonality of colour, from the darkest black, like my Uncle Hyne, to the ruddiest white, like my Uncle Eric - a Scotsman."

From BBC Apr. 25, 2023

Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room.

From Time Magazine Archive

The halls of the sun temple were overlaid with plates of the ruddiest gold, and the friezes and doors were of the same precious metal.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin




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