ruddy
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Tracing lipstick’s ruddy arc across the years, we can see how wildly its meanings diverge.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
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
That makes “Folktales” decidedly more powdery than densely packed — it’s all ruddy cheeks, slo-mo camaraderie and the healing power of steering a dog sled through breathtaking terrain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
The neighbor was a man in his early 40s, slim with jet-black hair, narrow eyes, and ruddy skin.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025
He’s a good ruddy dog, have I said that?
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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“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
Within a half hour, his face now ruddier than usual, Erviri returned to his Senate Caucus Room microphone to announce that he had been the victim of a hoax.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
The ruddiest of them: The Wanderer, by Mika Waltari, may be a bit of a disappointment to the author's fans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When we entered that awful place his curling hair had been of the ruddiest gold, now it was turning grey, and by the time we reached the outer air it was snow white.
From She by Henry Rider Haggard
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