philanderer

Example Sentences

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Events come to a head and the skillfully written climax is so distant and chilly that it speaks to a waning of interest in the figure of the philanderer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Danny Bailey, on the other hand, may be a bit of a philanderer and a con artist, but he hasn’t done anything really bad.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2021

In 1946, flush with the success of “The Pursuit of Love,” Mitford moved to Paris, only to discover that Palewski was as much a philanderer as Prod.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2019

They are orchestral showpieces that capture the sheer strangeness of Ibsen’s play about the fantastical adventures of a ne’er-do-well philanderer, and they are the Grieg that has most captured the fancy of popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2018

She is happy and well with the right man, but Heaven help her if the marriage ceremony links her with a philanderer!

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham