jilt
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She is the tragic spinster par excellence, a pain-seeking missile who couldn't be more open to repeated nuptial disappointment if she wore a large sign on her back saying: "Jilt Me".
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2012
I have in a previous chapter said how I wrote Can You Forgive Her? after the plot of a play which had been rejected,—which play had been called The Noble Jilt.
From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony
You know that Bailey was very much cut up about a little Jilt in the country somewhere.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
"The Fair Jilt," a Bandello-like story, begins with an exaltation of Love: and so on.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
Some few years since it was the great misfortune of my life to meet with a Jilt.
From I Say No by Collins, Wilkie
Vocabulary lists containing jilt
A Doll's House
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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