jilt

Trying to remain friends ruined Jack’s marriage and made Alice jilt another man at the altar.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

The jilt is when a coach ups and leaves one college program for another college program, normally in an ascent of status and sometimes wreaking hurt feelings.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

Every time you are tempted to respond, look at your fiancé—the one who didn’t jilt you and lie to you.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2019

You don’t jilt a woman who can spin in midair while wearing the equivalent of an ermine-trimmed housecoat.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016

Oh, women! hate me, laugh at me, jilt me—but let me live!

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

Then she watches as he jilts her for Julie Andrews’s Maria, a 19-year-old wannabe nun who runs around wearing drapes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

In “Queen,” the female lead takes a European “honeymoon” by herself after her fiance jilts her.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

The film stars Jill Clayburgh as a thirtysomething gallerist, wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when her stockbroker husband jilts her for a younger woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2014

San Diego State jilts Big East, staying in Mountain West San Diego State is staying in the Mountain West and backing out on the Big East — just like Boise State did last month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2013

Youth is headstrong, and kissing goes by favour; so Angelica, queen of Cathay, and beauty of the world, jilts warriors and kings, and marries a common soldier.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso

Nicknamed PixTinder by some, PIX has even become a last resort for jilted lovers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Well-wishers held out their flowers like jilted lovers.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

North Carolina, where the Ammels lived, is one of just a handful of states with a “homewrecker law” that allows a jilted spouse to sue a third party for damages for a marital breakup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

They also included twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the founders of crypto platform Gemini, who were made famous as jilted investors in the movie "The Social Network" about the birth of Facebook.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

I looked at Rosaleen, afraid this situation of jilted love might be unfortunate enough to send May into one of her episodes, but she was intent on my pancake.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

This is just the latest jilting in a sports market full of stakeholders shunning longtime alliances.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022

Within a decade of his death, Angelenos were jilting horseflesh contests for horsepower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

“Amazon’s hiring spree is concentrated in Seattle,” this newspaper reported, adding that this is a “degree of rebuke” to the idea the company is jilting us over the payroll tax.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

Killebrew and Allison took the Twins to the World Series in 1965, while Senators 2.0 had one winning season before again jilting the city and moving to Texas in 1972.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018

But Schonan, who had not recovered from his jilting, kept his behind him, and muttered something incomprehensible.

From The Sign of Flame by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner