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UK
/fɪlˈændɐ/
]
[ US /fəˈɫændɝ/ ]
[ US /fəˈɫændɝ/ ]
VERB
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have amorous affairs; of men
He has been womanizing for years -
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
My husband never flirts with other women
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
How To Use philander In A Sentence
- Posting articles about ethical polyamoury on a philanderer's site is like putting pictures of hands on a foot fetishist site.
- Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
- The man was not chauvinist for cheating on his wife indiscreetly; he was simply a philandering husband.
- Wagging tongues philandered from "Foley, who? and Hastert knew when?" to "George Allen's" Macaca "and Jim Webb wrote what? Crystal Syben Haidl: Fondling Democracy
- She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
- I hate to be the one to tell this woman that voles don't entertain thoughts of adultery, nor do they defend a lady vole's honor, nor do they "philander," because voles don't commit adultery, and they don't have honor. Book review: 'For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage,' by Tara Parker-Pope
- There are hit men, murderers, philanderers, thieves, betrayers, and other assorted riff-raff.
- Hollywood philandering
- He spent a lot of his life philandering, that is to say, cheating on my mom, making her insanely miserable.
- Philip was a serial philanderer who did not bother to conduct his affairs very discreetly, which infuriated the moody and jealous Joan.