(v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
(n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
(n.) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(n.) The cowfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the ultimate humiliation for a French politician who sought to be strong and in control of everything around him: Sarkozy was publicly cuckolded.
(2) Male bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) display a complex reproductive behavior involving two alternative life history pathways: delay of sexual maturation to become "parentals" or precocious maturation as "cuckolders."
(3) Picardo told Reuters on Monday that the European council president, Donald Tusk, was “behaving like a cuckolded husband who is taking it out on the children” over the Gibraltar clause.
(4) Its real-life story-line featured Parisian car-chases, New York hideaways, cuckolding, censorship, power games and one of the biggest jobs in European politics.
(5) Compared to spawning parental males, spawning cuckolder males had significantly lower serum levels of 11KT.
(6) In contrast, the serum levels of T among parental and cuckolder males were not significantly different.
(7) Kenwright is neither cuckolded husband nor deceived parent – and yet, somehow, has contrived to detect, not only feelings, but distinct ones, that he can identify, separate, name and possess.
(8) Still, on it plods, aeons passing with every will-sapping shot of Alfie crying in a doorway, his cuckolded jowls flapping like windsocks.
(9) And not just because of Uncle Bryn – it was a trait shared by Keith Barret, the melancholic Welsh cuckold who was the star of Marion and Geoff .
(10) The Dilemma , which largely consists of Vince Vaughn sweating over whether to tell his best buddy he's been cuckolded, is equally painful to watch in its desperate attempts to manufacture comedy.
(11) Earlier when the Mexican referee, Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno, showed Marchisio a red card, @nicoperdire had posted a tweet that said: “Referee’s wife confirms: he’s a cuckold.” Italian fans had feared the worst when they learned of the official’s surname.
(12) They include Baz Luhrmann's very-big-deal-of a Gatsby adaptation in which Clarke plays Wilson, the cuckolded mechanic, to Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby and Carey Mulligan's Daisy.
(13) Often these were costume pictures about historical personages, ranging from Lady Hamilton (1967) - he played the cuckolded Sir William Hamilton - to Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), with Mills as George Canning.
Seducing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seduce
(a.) Seductive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seduced into believing they could be a big influencer in Platini’s new Fifa, they rushed unthinkingly to back him.
(2) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(3) Saying that he had been “hung out to dry”, Blackburn denied in evidence that he had ever been interviewed by BBC staff about an episode dating back to 1971 when it was suggested that he had been involved in “seducing” 15-year-old Claire McAlpine after meeting her at a recording of Top of the Pops.
(4) It's only when they consider being seduced by the conventional rock'n'roll life that they get serious.
(5) And this sort of reading works, up to a point: Eusa is humanity seduced by knowledge and power, the Littl Shynin Man is the atom, and both unleash terrible chaos when split.
(6) Tony Hayward, chief executive of the UK's largest oil company, said that British government ministers risked being seduced by "headline-grabbing options" such as offshore wind and clean coal in a bid to bolster energy security and meet climate-change goals.
(7) In this, Trump’s greatest assets are a public that demands nothing too complicated from the arbiters of political discourse and a media culture that is all too eager to oblige.” Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America Publication: The Spectator (UK) Author: Hugo Rifkind Rifkind writes for the Spectator and the Times, and while he has supported liberal social measures and even joined Labour to vote against Jeremy Corbyn, he comes from Tory stock, and is best understood as a moderate conservative.
(8) Also, remember that Don was also almost seduced by alternative lifestyles before, only to find that the people practising them were entirely shallow.
(9) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(10) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(11) They too have also been developing homegrown talent and using a diverse scouting network to find hidden gems in the Ukrainian second division watching the Euros, and seen that Spain have a winger called Nolito , and that he doesn’t play for Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, and are ready to bet that he also has the capacity to be seduced by money, initial optimism and birthday cake.
(12) The young did vote a bit more in 2010 than in 2005, seduced by the Lib Dem fees pledge , but no broken promise was ever better designed to disillusion first-time voters.
(13) He'd become lazy and complacent, seduced by alcohol and drugs.
(14) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
(15) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
(16) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(17) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(18) To read some of our tabloid newspapers – which are not adverse to showing the odd bare breast – you might be seduced into thinking that the still-unfolding scandal of faulty breast implants made by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was just about vain women seeking Barbie Doll-style boob jobs.
(19) And I have a dream that stupid songs about seducing "good girls" will be laughed at instead of sent to No 1.
(20) After all, he was an accomplished viola player before the lure of the guitar seduced him.