What's the difference between complexion and complexioned?
Complexion
Definition:
(n.) The state of being complex; complexity.
(n.) A combination; a complex.
(n.) The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.
(n.) The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
(n.) The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.
Example Sentences:
(1) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
(2) The red card, though, changed the game’s complexion.
(3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
(4) Women seemed to be heavily outnumbered by men in terrible suits, with thick-rimmed glasses and pale grey complexions unkissed by Tuscan sun.
(5) Individuals with the deletion frequently had lighter hair color, more sun sensitivity, and fairer complexion than did either other family members or nondeletion PLWS patients.
(6) On this occasion they emphasize the contribution of echocardiography to the diagnosis of cardiac rupture and the exceptional complexion of this case, which, to their best knowledge, is the third to have survived left ventricular rupture associated with ischemic heart disease, more than two months.
(7) Over a five-year period, the total complexion of the hospital changed to its present state, an open-staffed, open door, comprehensive, community mental health center financed on a private basis.
(8) This is the space, the judges have been arguing, that should be used to give human rights law a British complexion.
(9) There was an inverse gradient of mole counts in young adults from subjects of white complexion through those of mixed ancestry, Oriental ancestry, to those of Negroid descent.
(10) Subjects with brown eyes were protected as compared with those with blue eyes (relative risk, 0.6; 95 per cent confidence interval, 0.4 to 0.8), but complexion and hair color were not important risk factors.
(11) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(12) This only gives his capillaries even more of a boiled-vinegar complexion.
(13) The genesis of the tumor is uncertain, however the cutaneous fair complexion, the number and type of pigmented nevei and acute intermittent sun exposure with sunburn may play a significant role in its development.
(14) To study the presence of dermatophytes in healthy persons, 1060 skin samples from the scalp, complexion, inguinal region and sole were taken from 265 healthy individuals who live in Valdivia, Chile.
(15) What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?
(16) Observed molecular weights were all ca 70 Da higher than that calculated from sequence information, consistent with the complexion of a partially hydrated iron atom to the enzyme during analysis.
(17) And here was me thinking it merely took years off your complexion.
(18) A followup questionnaire was sent to 127 respondents (18.6%) who reported worsening of their complexions; 70% of the questionnaires were returned.
(19) We conclude that dyschromia in confetti should be regarded as a possible, but probably rare, side effect of topical immunotherapy with diphenylcyclopropenone, especially in individuals with a rather dark complexion.
(20) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.
Complexioned
Definition:
(a.) Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
Example Sentences:
(1) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
(2) The red card, though, changed the game’s complexion.
(3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
(4) Women seemed to be heavily outnumbered by men in terrible suits, with thick-rimmed glasses and pale grey complexions unkissed by Tuscan sun.
(5) Individuals with the deletion frequently had lighter hair color, more sun sensitivity, and fairer complexion than did either other family members or nondeletion PLWS patients.
(6) On this occasion they emphasize the contribution of echocardiography to the diagnosis of cardiac rupture and the exceptional complexion of this case, which, to their best knowledge, is the third to have survived left ventricular rupture associated with ischemic heart disease, more than two months.
(7) Over a five-year period, the total complexion of the hospital changed to its present state, an open-staffed, open door, comprehensive, community mental health center financed on a private basis.
(8) This is the space, the judges have been arguing, that should be used to give human rights law a British complexion.
(9) There was an inverse gradient of mole counts in young adults from subjects of white complexion through those of mixed ancestry, Oriental ancestry, to those of Negroid descent.
(10) Subjects with brown eyes were protected as compared with those with blue eyes (relative risk, 0.6; 95 per cent confidence interval, 0.4 to 0.8), but complexion and hair color were not important risk factors.
(11) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(12) This only gives his capillaries even more of a boiled-vinegar complexion.
(13) The genesis of the tumor is uncertain, however the cutaneous fair complexion, the number and type of pigmented nevei and acute intermittent sun exposure with sunburn may play a significant role in its development.
(14) To study the presence of dermatophytes in healthy persons, 1060 skin samples from the scalp, complexion, inguinal region and sole were taken from 265 healthy individuals who live in Valdivia, Chile.
(15) What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?
(16) Observed molecular weights were all ca 70 Da higher than that calculated from sequence information, consistent with the complexion of a partially hydrated iron atom to the enzyme during analysis.
(17) And here was me thinking it merely took years off your complexion.
(18) A followup questionnaire was sent to 127 respondents (18.6%) who reported worsening of their complexions; 70% of the questionnaires were returned.
(19) We conclude that dyschromia in confetti should be regarded as a possible, but probably rare, side effect of topical immunotherapy with diphenylcyclopropenone, especially in individuals with a rather dark complexion.
(20) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.