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

When the Prince turns out to be a narcissistic philanderer, Cinderella wastes no time in trading her dream marriage for a more modest domestic arrangement with people who genuinely appreciate her.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

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

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

That autumnal vestal proclaimed that it was anything but suitable literature for an old philanderer who still saw fit to live alone.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)