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Meanings of florid in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ruddy"
Examples for "ruddy"
1
The three faces contrasted vividly in the ruddy glow of the fire.
2
A ruddy hero in regimentals, in Gilbert Stuart's early brandy-and-water manner; 2.
3
The efforts of the modest ruddy shelduck are of a higher order.
4
The dim, ruddy glow in the windows was not that of dawn.
5
The UK's culling of the ruddy duck was cited as one example.
1
Fairburn was sanguine about the prospect of interest rate increases next year.
2
Not it; too much colouring matter; direct result of a sanguine disposition.
3
Some Mittelstand firms remain sanguine about business prospects for the time being.
4
With the Peruvians a sanguine appearance in the sun denoted his anger.
5
The orang is sanguine, and slower in execution than the nervous chimpanzee.
1
Here, word for word, is the explanation given by the rubicund Joseph:
2
Such uni-dimensional thinking sends a frisson of rubicund belligerence down American spines.
3
Horse, foot, and charioteers, they thronged toward the rubicund fountain of education.
4
Red Bill paused and shoving back his sombrero scratched his rubicund poll.
5
Mr. Harley's countenance had been of that quasi claret hue called rubicund.
Usage of florid in English
1
The really dreadful ones clap after a particular florid passage of music.
2
Such activities were more in line with florid, excitable countries like Italy.
3
Sembrich made inevitable the operas of the florid Italian school, and Mme.
4
Our Mr Swann is also given to florid outbursts of baroque vulgarity.
5
Darker grew his florid countenance; his bulging eyes looked troubled and perplexed.
6
Every sentence led the florid practitioner farther and farther into the infinite.
7
He cast; the lowest number fell to Parkhurst, a florid, full-blooded Texan.
8
The style of his letters also was very regular, and slightly florid.
9
After the florid demonstration the raiders galloped away, yelling, down the river.
10
I saw her sharp-cut, florid face in profile, steadily bent and smelling.
11
The momentary convulsion of his florid physiognomy seemed to strike them dumb.
12
The florid little Lord of Gavrillac stood almost defiantly to receive him.
13
The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus.
14
He was an artist, but too florid, too decadent in his decorations.
15
I remembered that the stranger had a florid complexion; was this rouge?
16
Pierre du Pont. Spanish inherently gives such florid sounds to ordinary names.
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Florid across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common