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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

She is the mother as philanderer and absentee.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

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

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

For often enough The philanderer or the flirt thinks compliments and cajolery the food of love: in time they discover that love is a veritable sarcophagus!

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)




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