philander

"It says 'accept certain inalienable truths - prices will rise, politicians will philander and you too will get old'."

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

He did not drink or philander; his first marriage ended in an amicable divorce after twelve years, and his second lasted until his death in 1965.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Don’t mean to have any. It’s fun to watch other people philander, but I should feel like a fool doing it myself,” said Jo, looking alarmed at the thought.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

By assuring himself of the nobility of faithfulness and of its necessity as a matter of high decency, he vindicated in a measure the fact that he seemed too cowardly to philander.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht

To have thought such a thought of Ursula de Vesc was as preposterous as saying she would philander in a rose garden.

From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond

I mean that she is clever and very rich, and philanders with philanthropy.

From Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief by W. (William) Rainey

Mine uncle, on his bowling-green, Still storms a breach in Flanders; And faithful Trim, starch, tall, and lean, With Bridget still philanders.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson

While the men in the family philandered, Eunice spurned the wooing of her faithful suitor Sargent Shriver for seven years and came close to taking vows of chastity.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018

In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was her fate to sit, with her patient, saintly eyes and figure like a bisque Psyche, behind the sequestered counter of the little shop, while Dicky drank and philandered with his frivolous acquaintances.

From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

Do you remember the sundial over which Dolly and Mr. Carter philandered, the one which bore the motto— Horas non numero nisi serenas?

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

In half an hour he and Aunt Elizabeth had philandered as deep as a six months' flirtation; and I must say that they have kept at it with an art amounting almost to sincerity.

From The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

He said he had "dedicated a lot of my life to what seems now beyond reckless, philandering, and idiocy".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Born in 1929 to a wealthy and conservative family -- by her account with a domineering mother and philandering father -- Kusama began producing her unique signature art aged 10.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The inevitable scandals aren’t about state-sponsored doping schemes but cheating curlers and a philandering biathlete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

One forthcoming spectator confessed to being burdened with anger over her father’s philandering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

“I am not a philandering man, and you know that. This would not have happened if my mother didn’t have a hand!”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie