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cuckold

[kuhk-uhld] / ˈkʌk əld /


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And as Martin, Whishaw is as Britishly brittle-yet-vulnerable as only he can be, the stoic, sad-eyed cuckold trying to rise above and move on from the fray.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2023

As it is, Affleck is left with little to play but a sorry, perpetually glum cuckold.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2022

And Anderson stalwarts Murray and Jason Schwartzman own their roles as, respectively, a cuckold dad and a power-mad camp counselor, but they remain on the periphery, like wandering jesters.

From Slate May 24, 2012

Samuel Barnett as the helpless cuckold, Vanessa Kirby as the tricked Isabella, Richard Lintern as the Mussolinesque Duke and Andrew Woodall as a sly courtier also give good, well-defined performances.

From The Guardian Apr. 27, 2010

O beware of my lord of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives on bliss Who, certain of his fate, love not its wronger.

From Roger Trewinion by King, Gunning

And he sang a wide range of Wagner’s fathers, cuckolds, giants and monarchs.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2017

The author's familiar gallery of upper-class English clowns, cuckolds and bounders in the not entirely comic opera that was England between the wars.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very few men, however, take their complaints to the People’s Court for fear of appearing weak or, unthinkably, as cuckolds.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

In this, however, we differ; our cuckolds are laughed at as fools, which is monstrously absurd, whilst the transgressor is denominated a fine fellow, no less monstrously unjust.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert

Forster’s marriage also brought him suffering—he was disdained by his wife and cuckolded by his friends—indeed, his marital situation may have given Goethe the basis for his 1809 novel “Elective Affinities.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Emma Thompson is his earnest sister and Alan Rickman her husband, besotted by his secretary; Liam Neeson is a widowed stepfather; and Colin Firth is a writer cuckolded by his own brother.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2016

That would be the same crazed, cuckolded Cardenio whom Don Quixote met in Chapter 23 of the novel, then helped reunite with his inamorata a hundred pages later.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2016

It would have been incredibly easy for Haynes or Nagy to overplay the imprisoning quality of Carol’s life in New Jersey horse country, or to make her cuckolded husband into a cartoon 1950s villain.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2015

Ay, ay, this Grievance ought to be redrest, Sir Feeble; the grave and sober part o'th' Nation are hereby ridicul'd,—Ay, and cuckolded too for ought I know.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague



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