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UK
/kəmplˈɛkʃən/
]
[ US /kəmˈpɫɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɫɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- texture and appearance of the skin of the face
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a combination that results from coupling or interlinking
diphthongs are complexions of vowels - (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament
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a point of view or general attitude or inclination
a liberal political complexion
he altered the complexion of his times - the coloring of a person's face
VERB
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give a certain color to
The setting sun complexioned the hills
How To Use complexion In A Sentence
- After only a few minutes my normally florid complexion had begun to resemble Florida. Times, Sunday Times
- He had a thin face, a pasty complexion and a long thin nose.
- Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. Your Right Hand Thief
- If that had gone in the game would have taken on a different complexion. The Sun
- A pale complexion can also signal iron deficiency anaemia. The Sun
- He is described as white, about six feet two inches tall aged in his mid to late 30s. with a large build, a shaved head, a ruddy complexion and a distinctive Liverpool accent.
- The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
- Ritu had been chosen on account of her suitable family background and her fair complexion.
- The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
- You had used only a subtle taupe pencil, which I would have thought would wash out my fair complexion.