Definition of philander
philandered
;philandering
play \fə-ˈlan-d(ə-)riŋ\intransitive verb
: to have casual or illicit sex with a person or with many people; especially : to be sexually unfaithful to one's spouse —usually used of a man … her philandering brother-in-law; and … the schoolteacher he philanders with. — Judith Crist
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Examples of philander in a Sentence
he can't seem to stop philandering, even now that he's on his fifth marriage
Recent Examples of philander from the Web
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So why would anyone want to watch a series about a group of philandering, shameless, serially narcissistic people?
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Wortel rightly gives the narrator’s father—vivacious, tearful, lying, philandering, and verbose—
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Even the party guests have back stories, among them the handsome, philandering doctor (Roland Lane) and his stoic wife (Marlaina Powell), who put him through medical school.
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One case involved a wealthy doctor's philandering wife who was spending most of her time at their posh resort condo with her young daughter.
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Burns, a philandering white man with a taste for brawls and a smart tongue, is often—and more than some might like, perhaps—thought to embody that past.
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Genetic tests of 16 vulture families found no evidence of philandering.
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Origin and Etymology of philander
from obsolete philander lover, philanderer, probably from the name Philander
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