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philanderer

[fi-lan-der-er] / fɪˈlæn dər ər /


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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

I could tell them he wasn’t an American veteran at all—he was Canadian, and he was actually pretty rabidly anti-American, an oil engineer–turned–environmentalist, a serial philanderer.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2024

She is the mother as philanderer and absentee.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

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

He felt himself pushed down to almost the level of a philanderer—a philanderer not much more august than Adair.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby




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