cuckold

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

His affinity for theatrical misdirection and mystery was acknowledged by his friend, the playwright Anthony Shaffer, who based the cunningly vengeful cuckold in his play “Sleuth” partly on Mr. Sondheim.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

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

As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower:—the lady bade take away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

And he sang a wide range of Wagner’s fathers, cuckolds, giants and monarchs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author's familiar gallery of upper-class English clowns, cuckolds and bounders in the not entirely comic opera that was England between the wars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very few men, however, take their complaints to the People’s Court for fear of appearing weak or, unthinkably, as cuckolds.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

What! are we cuckolds ere we have deserv'd it?

From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William

Forster’s marriage also brought him suffering—he was disdained by his wife and cuckolded by his friends—indeed, his marital situation may have given Goethe the basis for his 1809 novel “Elective Affinities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Smiley is thus an anti-James Bond, an unheroic, frequently cuckolded secret agent who looks like a shy and miserable clerk in an old London bank.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020

Wheeldon was helped by his source, Shakespeare’s searing late play, which begins with Leontes, the King of Sicilia, deciding that his queen, Hermione, has cuckolded him with his best friend, Polixenes.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2016

That would be the same crazed, cuckolded Cardenio whom Don Quixote met in Chapter 23 of the novel, then helped reunite with his inamorata a hundred pages later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2016

Hum—no, no, this is not to me—I am jilted, cozen'd, cuckolded, and so forth.—

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague