ruddy
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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
His clean-shaven face is ruddy and, excepting a divot between his eyebrows, unwrinkled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
The mineral cave decor — epsomite, mirabilite, sulfate — rusts into the ruddy orange of iron oxide, the deep black of manganese.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023
Shards of glass flew in every direction and Aunt Marge sputtered and blinked, her great ruddy face dripping.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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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
This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever.
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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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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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