red-blooded

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red-blooded

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figuratively, not comparable Having a healthy vigor and spirit. The carbon tax won acclaim from self-described socialists and red-blooded libertarians, Democratic senators and Republican secretaries of state, Elon Musk and Janet Yellen.
Similar: hearty, robust, vigorous, macho, red-blood
figuratively, not comparable Having an active sex drive; lustful. As one of my clients put it, 'I love my wife so much I'm so in love with her but we don't have sex, I only have sex three times a year and I'm a red blooded man I can't deal with that'.
Similar: virile, concupiscent
not comparable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, blooded. In five tightly cropped close-ups, terra firma appears to be roiling, more like the surface of a stormy sea than anything you’d want to build a house on. Melted ice cream comes to mind, as does the flesh of red-blooded animals.

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@misc{red_blooded_2026,
  title = {red-blooded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/red-blooded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}