cuckoldry
noun
cuck·old·ry
ˈkə-kəl-drē 
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There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Anthropology reveals other explanations for cuckoldry that don’t necessitate deception.
—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
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
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
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Anthropology reveals other explanations for cuckoldry that don’t necessitate deception.
—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
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
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
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“Cuckoldry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoldry. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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