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
I could tell them he wasn’t an American veteran at all—he was Canadian, and he was actually pretty rabidly anti-American, an oil engineer–turned–environmentalist, a serial philanderer.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2024
Also there is Jackson’s understandable disdain for the “screeching girls,” as she called the students at Bennington, the women’s college in Vermont where Hyman, a perennial philanderer, taught.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 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
He was not a philanderer, but he was young and she had made him feel that he had played an ungallant part.
From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.