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Meanings of rubicund in English
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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
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.
Usage of rubicund in English
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.
6
Dr. Gunning was an amiable little Hollander, fat, rubicund, and well educated.
7
Discoloration of the veins of the nose, resulting in an appearance abnormally rubicund.
8
The Plimptons, with their rubicund and aggressively healthy offspring, were always in evidence.
9
He asked the stout, rubicund young woman behind the counter for a whisky.
10
One of them was a stout, rubicund person advanced in years.
11
The squire looked rubicund and patriarchal, with his broad physique and snow-white hair.
12
In the stern seat Regina Mortlake's rubicund aviation costume could be made out.
13
He was a gentleman of a particularly round and rubicund countenance.
14
Its rubicund tints quite deserted it, an alarming pallor spreading over every feature.
15
His face had lengthened considerably by this time, and its rubicund hue declined.
16
As the former's rubicund visage disappeared beneath the companion-hatch, Mr Falconer returned aft.
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