philander

"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

“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

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

"Oglander," he said to himself, "a curious, charming name, rhyming with Leander, philander——" he shook his head and smiled, "no, no, not philander," he said, speaking the words aloud.

From Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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

If you had not gone and frightened her, they might have philandered on all this time, till the whole affair died of its own silliness.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge

And it was her fate to sit, with her patient, saintly eyes and figure like a bisque Psyche, behind the sequestered counter of the little shop, while Dicky drank and philandered with his frivolous acquaintances.

From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

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 said he had "dedicated a lot of my life to what seems now beyond reckless, philandering, and idiocy".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

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