cuckoldry
noun
cuck·old·ry
ˈkə-kəl-drē 
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His insecure paranoia clashes with her erratic behavior, and as their frantic domestic drama pushes up against the concrete boundaries of a divided Berlin, a writhing, shape-shifting entity is taking cuckoldry to the next level.
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
In the human realm, at least, equating cuckoldry solely with trickery and the cuckolded as weak and foolish is inaccurate.
—Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
Anthropology reveals other explanations for cuckoldry that don’t necessitate deception.
—Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Of course another possibility is that cuckoldry of non-Genghiside lineages was rather common in the early years of the Mongol Empire by Genghiside princes, of whom there were legion, legitimate and illegitimate.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2012
Nobody’s Hero depicts contemporary globalism’s cuckoldry — the complex ways people act out their own political and psychosexual paradoxes.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2023
That's pretty impressive, but is about typical for high status males in terms of rates of cuckoldry today.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2011
The scope of Egan’s vision is astoundingly personal even as the stories rove global: awkward Manhattan hook-ups, luxury safari getaways, suburban cuckoldry, desert kids, dictators, music producers.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
In the human realm, at least, equating cuckoldry solely with trickery and the cuckolded as weak and foolish is inaccurate.
—Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
Anthropology reveals other explanations for cuckoldry that don’t necessitate deception.
—Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Of course another possibility is that cuckoldry of non-Genghiside lineages was rather common in the early years of the Mongol Empire by Genghiside princes, of whom there were legion, legitimate and illegitimate.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2012
Nobody’s Hero depicts contemporary globalism’s cuckoldry — the complex ways people act out their own political and psychosexual paradoxes.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2023
That's pretty impressive, but is about typical for high status males in terms of rates of cuckoldry today.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2011
The scope of Egan’s vision is astoundingly personal even as the stories rove global: awkward Manhattan hook-ups, luxury safari getaways, suburban cuckoldry, desert kids, dictators, music producers.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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“Cuckoldry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoldry. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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