philanderer

Example Sentences

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Her second husband, Andrea Dotti, an Italian psychiatrist, is defined as a philanderer whose behavior toward her was “despicable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

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

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

But that same search in Chinese comes up with a very different portrait: Sheng Xue is a fraud, a thief, a traitor and a serial philanderer.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019

Are you indeed willing to be written down in history as a philanderer in great things, to loiter in your flower gardens, whilst other men fight the battle of life for you and your fellows?

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)