How to Use philanderer in a Sentence

philanderer

noun

• The Duke, a philanderer, has far less interest in mob rule than in chasing skirts.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
• A number of people who are close to Kennedy described him to me as a lifelong philanderer.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Matt’s has to do with his father, a philanderer whose infidelities led his parents to split.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2021
• Gladys was pretty good about living with a serial philanderer.
  — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2022
• Her father was an alcoholic and not fully stable, her late husband a philanderer who hurt and embarrassed her.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Buns is a philanderer and a pedophile; Sincere is a faithful partner and loving father.
  — Jordan Coley, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2021
• Naming a proud state after such a philanderer is a royal embarrassment today.
  — Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025
• Vain philanderers are perhaps even more common than fastidious captains.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• His father, Irving, who worked as an electrician at an aerospace company, was a charming philanderer with a gambling problem.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Is Jack a do-nothing philanderer while Shyanne desperately tries to preserve their five-year romance, or is the truth more complicated than that?
  — Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
• The husband — one Armand-Loup — is a serial philanderer who most recently has been discovered having an affair with the wife of the local boulanger.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
• Trump denies being a philanderer, with his defense saying his concerns over the allegations revolved around his family, not his political prospects.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
• Al Neiman was a notorious philanderer, and eventually, Carrie sued him for divorce, not long after having a miscarriage.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
• Most of the astronauts were unable to remain loyal to their wives, with Shepard taking the lead as a compulsive philanderer while Glenn always remained true to his love, Annie.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Casanova, Last Love depicts the quintessential European seducer’s final years, when the philanderer finally meets his match.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 July 2021
• Rivals, especially conservatives, initially dismissed him as a crude-mouthed, irreligious philanderer with little to offer besides celebrity and questionable business bona fides.
  — Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• While her husband, Prince Ludwig was a notorious philanderer, Therese endeared herself to the citizens of Bavaria, and the site of the wedding was renamed Theresienwiese in her honor.
  — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
• Just three seasons into his tenure on Saturday Night Live, the sparky 27-year-old has become a clear fan favorite—especially since debuting the smooth-talking, goateed philanderer Domingo last fall.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
• Felix is a serial philanderer, a relentless seducer who, even now, at around seventy, in Laura’s presence, flirts outrageously with young women, perfect strangers—a waitress, his granddaughters’ ballet teacher, one of Dean’s colleagues.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
• Burden’s grandmother Babe Paley, a prominent New York socialite, was married to William Paley, the founder of CBS and a serial philanderer.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
• Richardson sorts out all of that, and sharpens the literary angles, but the triumph of True Nature is his understanding of Matthiessen as a man literally running wild over a very long and complicated life, a man of myriad contradictions and, tellingly, a serial philanderer.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
• All that, plus Liev Schreiber as a pill-popping philanderer named Tag, Dakota Fanning in pregnancy prosthetics, and Donna Lynne Champlin as the beleaguered detective trying to solve the murder.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026