philanderer
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Events come to a head and the skillfully written climax is so distant and chilly that it speaks to a waning of interest in the figure of the philanderer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Danny Bailey, on the other hand, may be a bit of a philanderer and a con artist, but he hasn’t done anything really bad.
From Slate • Sep. 6, 2021
But that same search in Chinese comes up with a very different portrait: Sheng Xue is a fraud, a thief, a traitor and a serial philanderer.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019
They are orchestral showpieces that capture the sheer strangeness of Ibsen’s play about the fantastical adventures of a ne’er-do-well philanderer, and they are the Grieg that has most captured the fancy of popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2018
It would be folly to pursue by later train, because Peter, as was customary with that young philanderer, had neglected to leave his forwarding address.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
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