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
“I ordered the broiled crab cakes and they were really good,” says Chris Kipiniak with the pained gravitas of a cuckold recounting his wife’s affair.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012
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
Ford’s a knave, and I will aggravate his 255 style; thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and cuckold.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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