How to Use philanderer in a Sentence

philanderer

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024