philander
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"It says 'accept certain inalienable truths - prices will rise, politicians will philander and you too will get old'."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
He did not drink or philander; his first marriage ended in an amicable divorce after twelve years, and his second lasted until his death in 1965.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Don’t mean to have any. It’s fun to watch other people philander, but I should feel like a fool doing it myself,” said Jo, looking alarmed at the thought.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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By assuring himself of the nobility of faithfulness and of its necessity as a matter of high decency, he vindicated in a measure the fact that he seemed too cowardly to philander.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
With him certainly she had no disposition to philander.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
Mine uncle, on his bowling-green, Still storms a breach in Flanders; And faithful Trim, starch, tall, and lean, With Bridget still philanders.
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
I mean that she is clever and very rich, and philanders with philanthropy.
From Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief by W. (William) Rainey
While the men in the family philandered, Eunice spurned the wooing of her faithful suitor Sargent Shriver for seven years and came close to taking vows of chastity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Druro was about to object in his turn, though, for a moment, he philandered with the delightful thought of getting even with Gay by covering her with dust and petrol fumes.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
The fellow had philandered round her some time, and had shown an insolent and interfering temper once or twice towards himself.
From Harvest by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He had—no, he had not philandered in the rose garden.
From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond
Born in 1929 to a wealthy and conservative family -- by her account with a domineering mother and philandering father -- Kusama began producing her unique signature art aged 10.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rhoda is less interested in Max’s disloyalty to Leonie than in the tales of Ana’s philandering, profligate father, a Maltese artist who raised her after her Italian mother died during childbirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The film delved into the loneliness of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a philandering, often tyrannical landlord in an opulent yet feudal world.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Like the power-mongering and philandering Zeus of mythology, they are unhappy when their bad deeds are pointed out.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025
“I am not a philandering man, and you know that. This would not have happened if my mother didn’t have a hand!”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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