red-blooded
adjective
vigorous; virile.
red-bloodedness
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a word derived from
red-blooded.
Example Sentences
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His ideal of character was manliness, a sound ideal, but he insisted too much upon the physical side of it, "red-bloodedness" and all that.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
