philanderer
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“Particularly when your disobedience threatens to upend how the business makes money. In Hollywood you can be an addict, be a philanderer, be outspoken. But don’t disrupt the cash flow.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
John Caldwell, a former Detective Chief Inspector, described the killer of showjumper Katie Simpson, as a "bad boy" or "philanderer", according to material seen by BBC News.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
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
It had been a pleasanter thing to him to keep unsullied the more important dreams of life than to endanger them with the transitory pleasures of the philanderer.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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