red-blooded

adjective

red-blood·​ed ˈred-ˈblə-dəd How to pronounce red-blooded (audio)

Examples of red-blooded in a Sentence

a red-blooded rugby player who always plays to win
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Such a machine causes certain stirrings in the loins of any red-blooded petrolhead. New Atlas, 22 June 2025 Nor should any red-blooded heroine be expected to drop as alluring a presence as Pascal. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 21 June 2025 Highlights of the book with the proudly, grammatically incorrect title include rants against nature, those godless Hollywood liberals, and how everything is trying to turn red-blooded Americans gay. Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025 And on the high-school football team, the comedian remembers trying to pass off his pop-star obsessions as pure, red-blooded machismo. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 17 May 2025 Every red-blooded American male has no doubt fantasized about what went on in Hugh Hefner’s bedroom with his harem of blond bombshells. Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 May 2025 This is a real, red-blooded man, who takes responsibility and accepts challenges and treats others with a constant grace. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025 His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs. Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024 They were incorporated into America’s often confused sense of itself as a nation built upon red-blooded masculinity and upon high-minded righteousness. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of red-blooded was in 1836

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“Red-blooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red-blooded. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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red-blooded

adjective
red-blood·​ed
ˈred-ˈbləd-əd

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