jilt

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

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

As of Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma for Southern California and Brian Kelly leaving Notre Dame for LSU, the jilt doesn’t care who you are anymore.

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

“I do not think it right that you should jilt an honourable man like Edward Morgan,” he said.

From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young

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

In the essays themselves the same purpose led to the censure of gambling, lying, affectation of youth by the aged, jilts, "Anti-Eternitarians," scandal bearing, and other petty sins and sinners.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by George Frisbie Whicher

The competition jilted several companies that didn’t make the cut, leading defense-tech executives to complain to members of Congress and sue the government, separate people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Well-wishers held out their flowers like jilted lovers.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

In 2018, a judge awarded a jilted husband almost $9 million, after he alleged that another man lured his wife away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Playing a jilted wife whose disdain for her husband swells as the film progresses, "Contempt" was one of Bardot's rare critically acclaimed films, with The New York Times praising it as her best acting performance.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

And then, about 1936, or 1937, the man from Lansing jilted my mother suddenly.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

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

An induction crowd rarely if ever boos, and Cubs fans, who understand their historic, losing plight, did not jeer him for jilting them.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2014

Even Joe left a year early, jilting Snyder.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2013

Engaged girls—honourable ones!—always give presents back on jilting.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan