cuckoldry

noun

cuck·​old·​ry ˈkə-kəl-drē 

1

: the practice of making cuckolds

2

: the state of being a cuckold

Examples of cuckoldry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025

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

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1