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

The airbrushing was so over-the-top, the eyes so blue, the lips so rouged, that he looked like a porcelain doll.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

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

The candlelight accentuated her rouged cheeks and painted mouth.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy