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womanize

verb as in philander

verb as in play around

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Bill's decision to sport his ring at all, however, may come as a surprise to some given that the couple, who shares three children, are splitting up amid reports that Bill would routinely womanize despite being married to Melinda.

Although he’s still married, Bill's decision to sport his ring at all may come as a surprise to some given that the couple, who shares three children, are splitting up amid reports that Bill would routinely womanize despite being married to Melinda.

There it is — with a bonus dollop of fat-shaming — the slur that has slid down the centuries toward us: Those who read for “the amusement of the moment,” Knox sneered, are engaged in a pastime that tends only “to vitiate their morals, to womanize their spirits.”

A 1994 column in the St. Petersburg Times reports that Frank Ragano, a former mob lawyer who wrote a tell-all book, told the crowd at a bookstore signing, “Jimmy Hoffa was the cleanest man who ever lived. He never had a drink of liquor in his life. He never had coffee in his life. He didn’t smoke cigarettes. He didn’t womanize.”

From Slate

“Out! Out! Out! Leave me be and go womanize someone else!”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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