as in womanizer
a man given to seducing women
an incorrigible philanderer who was often in lust and never in love
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Treat Williams as Paley’s husband — the CBS chief executive William S. Paley who, written as a good-hearted philanderer, comes off better than just about anyone else — is fun to watch.
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Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
In the affidavit, filed Friday in New York and obtained by PEOPLE, an actress referred to as Jane Doe claims that Brand exposed himself to her before assaulting her in a bathroom on the set of the 2011 movie, Arthur, which starred Brand as a wealthy alcoholic philanderer.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2023
The network moved the setting of Houston’s story to Northeast Washington, D.C., and softened some of the dynamics between Gibbs’s character and her counterparts — Mary’s husband, Lester Jenkins, (Hal Williams) had been a philanderer in the play but became a dedicated family man on the series.
—Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
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
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Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
In the affidavit, filed Friday in New York and obtained by PEOPLE, an actress referred to as Jane Doe claims that Brand exposed himself to her before assaulting her in a bathroom on the set of the 2011 movie, Arthur, which starred Brand as a wealthy alcoholic philanderer.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2023
The network moved the setting of Houston’s story to Northeast Washington, D.C., and softened some of the dynamics between Gibbs’s character and her counterparts — Mary’s husband, Lester Jenkins, (Hal Williams) had been a philanderer in the play but became a dedicated family man on the series.
—Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
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
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