Sample sentences for PHILANDERER

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Definition

of a man: to flirt and have sexual relations with a woman without any intention of marriage; or such a pattern

a well-known philanderer

age has not slowed his philandering
Rufino's mother, Doña Zaida, encouraged her sons' philandering.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Finding philandering spouses who think rendezvousing on a different planet will keep them safe from discovery.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
But we mustn't stand philandering here.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
If their philandering was being documented in a dozen ways?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
We need to make sure the media doesn't turn you into the evil philandering husband, because if that happens, I just think it's all over."
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
May you not have been philandering a little also, Monsieur Bonacieux?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
For instance, suppose Mr. McAllister hadn't got mad and called off the wedding, and Miss Love had married him despite his reputation for philandering.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
That Dympna Grisham has finally thrown out her cheating no-good philandering husband and—
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
He was completely cured of philandering amongst the lower classes.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Though, Farfrae, between you and me, as man and man, I solemnly declare that philandering with womankind has neither been my vice nor my virtue.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
The president's philandering aside, unquestionably the biggest change between the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations is in the lady of the house.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
And all because of a bit of minor philandering.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
I don't approve of the present fashion of philandering bachelors and late marriages; and I am trying to arrange something for you.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
But the disease was not punishment enough for her nocturnal philandering.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
But in Archer's little world no one laughed at a wife deceived, and a certain measure of contempt was attached to men who continued their philandering after marriage.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
The disappointment that propels them from woman to woman gives their inconstancy a kind of romantic excuse, so that many sentimental women are touched by their unbridled philandering.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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