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