cuckold
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And as Martin, Whishaw is as Britishly brittle-yet-vulnerable as only he can be, the stoic, sad-eyed cuckold trying to rise above and move on from the fray.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023
As it is, Affleck is left with little to play but a sorry, perpetually glum cuckold.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
And Anderson stalwarts Murray and Jason Schwartzman own their roles as, respectively, a cuckold dad and a power-mad camp counselor, but they remain on the periphery, like wandering jesters.
From Slate • May 24, 2012
Samuel Barnett as the helpless cuckold, Vanessa Kirby as the tricked Isabella, Richard Lintern as the Mussolinesque Duke and Andrew Woodall as a sly courtier also give good, well-defined performances.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2010
Wha first shall rise to gang awa, A cuckold coward loun is he: Wha last beside his chair shall fa’, He is the king amang us three.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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