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

Blue eyes, ruddy complexion and light brown hair, he reminded her of her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

Zia Tile has a catalog of 64 colors, and Case Study includes four new offerings — ruddy Pompeii; cool beige Dune; burnt orange Rust; and Elemental Blue, an Yves Klein-inspired cobalt shade.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

He’s blond, ruddy faced, and really built—the dude’s got serious muscles.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

“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

Before the meeting Christy Sullivan sat in his glass-paneled office in Tammany's red brick Wigwam, his face a little ruddier than usual, his thin lips pressed tight.

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

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

That the roundest and ruddiest rainbows have beamed from the gloomiest clouds.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee