How to Use philanderer in a Sentence

philanderer

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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