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

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

“I keep doing things. I make decisions without thinking. Crikey, firing a ruddy antiaircraft gun—no authorization whatsoever, and Messerschmitt 109s circling overhead!”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

“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

It was now the First Division, U.S.M.C., more than 8,000 strong, and Howlin' Mad, ruddier than ever, had the two stars of a major general on his shoulder straps.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So sweet his voice, so radiant was his hue, Such loveliness of limb and youthful mould, 640 Such cheeks of ruddiest bloom, and locks of burnished gold.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor