pulchritudinous
Example Sentences
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Unlike the fleshy, pulchritudinous and radiant nudes of Rubens and Renoir, Mr. Pearlstein’s models are painted as ordinary human beings.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
The pulchritudinous guitar player has lately become the achy heart of Nashville—as well as most of its connective tissue.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2013
"She was, I decided, the most astonishingly self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen," Burton wrote in a diary passage quoted in Melvyn Bragg's 1988 biography of the Welsh actor.
From Chicago Tribune • Mar. 23, 2011
A note has been passed to me by one of the pulchritudinous PR people representing the bookies tonight.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2011
As in: I’ve never had a girlfriend, but if I did, you better believe she’d be pulchritudinous.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
