How to Use philanderer in a Sentence

philanderer

noun
  • A number of people who are close to Kennedy described him to me as a lifelong philanderer.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Matt’s has to do with his father, a philanderer whose infidelities led his parents to split.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In addition to being a beloved and influential preacher, the Rev. C.L. Franklin was a drinker, a bully and a shameless philanderer.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Dominic blames his father, Bert (F. Murray Abraham), a philanderer in his own right, for neglecting to teach him how to treat women well.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Buns is a philanderer and a pedophile; Sincere is a faithful partner and loving father.
    — Jordan Coley, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The husband — one Armand-Loup — is a serial philanderer who most recently has been discovered having an affair with the wife of the local boulanger.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
  • Most of the astronauts were unable to remain loyal to their wives, with Shepard taking the lead as a compulsive philanderer while Glenn always remained true to his love, Annie.
    — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Her father was an alcoholic and not fully stable, her late husband a philanderer who hurt and embarrassed her.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Gladys was pretty good about living with a serial philanderer.
    — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • His father, Irving, who worked as an electrician at an aerospace company, was a charming philanderer with a gambling problem.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Al Neiman was a notorious philanderer, and eventually, Carrie sued him for divorce, not long after having a miscarriage.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Trump denies being a philanderer, with his defense saying his concerns over the allegations revolved around his family, not his political prospects.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
  • Casanova, Last Love depicts the quintessential European seducer’s final years, when the philanderer finally meets his match.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 July 2021
  • Vain philanderers are perhaps even more common than fastidious captains.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • If a cliché is a formal expression whose original charm has been deadened through repetition, then nothing could better describe Amis’s reputation as an overrated, overpaid philanderer.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Felix is a serial philanderer, a relentless seducer who, even now, at around seventy, in Laura’s presence, flirts outrageously with young women, perfect strangers—a waitress, his granddaughters’ ballet teacher, one of Dean’s colleagues.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Rivals, especially conservatives, initially dismissed him as a crude-mouthed, irreligious philanderer with little to offer besides celebrity and questionable business bona fides.
    — Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022

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