philanderer

Example Sentences

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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

Also there is Jackson’s understandable disdain for the “screeching girls,” as she called the students at Bennington, the women’s college in Vermont where Hyman, a perennial philanderer, taught.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

She is happy and well with the right man, but Heaven help her if the marriage ceremony links her with a philanderer!

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham