Synonyms for philanderer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fi-lan-der
Phonetic Transcription : fɪˈlæn dər


Définition of philanderer

Origin :
  • 1816, agent noun from philander (v.).
  • noun person who has many love affairs
Example sentences :
  • A vision of his antitype, the Cowes Philanderer, crossed me for a second.
  • Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
  • In one of his plays—The Philanderer—a certain character has five or six natures.
  • Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
  • His "The Philanderer" was published before a theater would accept it.
  • Extract from : « Six Major Prophets » by Edwin Emery Slosson
  • For all that he was puzzled; he had not thought Musgrave a philanderer.
  • Extract from : « Kit Musgrave's Luck » by Harold Bindloss
  • "If Musgrave's not a philanderer, he's mighty dull," he said.
  • Extract from : « Kit Musgrave's Luck » by Harold Bindloss
  • There is no twopenny modernism in it, as in The Philanderer.
  • Extract from : « George Bernard Shaw » by Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Thorpe accepted his share with the caution of the wise man, while Dodge, not a whit less capable, took his as a philanderer.
  • Extract from : « From the Housetops » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • The Philanderer, with its irresponsible levity and unexpected contortions, is a comedy of the true Shaw order.
  • Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
  • He had even told Miss Grains that he looked upon Mr. Puffin as a "philanderer," and that "he didn't hold with philanderers."
  • Extract from : « The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) » by Charles James Wills
  • The fourteenth man was Bayard, who belongs to a very exasperating type of philanderer.
  • Extract from : « Modern marriage and how to bear it » by Maud Churton Braby

Antonyms for philanderer

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