ruddy

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

Glinting golden in the sunlight was a small ship, its sails billowing, and a ruddy, mustachioed face looked down at them from over the side.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

“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

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

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

On a sunny slope several hundred yards above the highway lay an orchard, advertised to the larcenous eye by the ruddiest of red apples.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith