cheeked

[ cheekt ]

adjective

1. having cheeks of the kind indicated (used in combination):

   rosy-cheeked youngsters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cheeked¹

cheek + -ed ³

Example Sentences

On July 4, this sweet, rosy-cheeked child saw people at a family parade gunned down directly in front of her.

From Time

We allowed TV fathers to be emotional and stopped depicting mothers as rosy-cheeked June Cleavers who have time to make their family waffles every morning and maintain a perm.

From Time

Rosy-cheeked Vikings present a newly sparkling Oslo on a platter for the SAS Scandinavian Airlines System.

From Washington Post

The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.

From The Daily Beast

Guy Pelly is everything a pink-cheeked party promoting friend of the young Royals should be.

From The Daily Beast

Not 17-year-olds with washboard abs, but smooth-cheeked preteens and young adolescents.

From The Daily Beast

Peripheral vision and incisive criticism all in one low to the ground, rosy-cheeked, smart as you please Barbara Delbanco.

From The Daily Beast

Being the two younger ones, Jeanie, my black-eyed, rosy-cheeked cousin and I had the lesser parts in the plays.

From The Daily Beast

"Not the kind of ride you mean," said the brown-eyed, pink-cheeked one, with a knowing little smile on her lips.

From Project Gutenberg

The change in the rosy-cheeked boy was startling: pale and hollow-eyed, he walked with a weak, halting step.

From Project Gutenberg

Luckily Buster had time to make a hearty meal off the sugar before a red-cheeked girl shooed him away.

From Project Gutenberg

How the pink-cheeked high school girls elbowed each other to get a peep at the post-mark!

From Project Gutenberg

The two men sat opposite each other and ate supper, which was served by the red-cheeked girl.

From Project Gutenberg