What's the difference between cuckold and unfaithful?

Cuckold


Definition:

  • (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.

Unfaithful


Definition:

  • (a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
  • (a.) Not possessing faith; infidel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (3) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.
  • (4) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
  • (5) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (6) But she indicated that he was unfaithful, did not make love to her, and was only interested in her money, of which she had very little.
  • (7) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
  • (8) The idea came from Soon-Yi, his wife of 16 years, who told him about the friend of a friend – the wife of a financier who imploded after learning her husband was unfaithful and involved in Ponzi-ish fraud.
  • (9) The relationship between the courts, the press and parliament has been severely shaken over the past week by a froth of injunctions protecting the identity of allegedly unfaithful footballers and other celebrities.
  • (10) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
  • (11) Second, the problem of achieving adequate contrast without the expense of an unfaithful representation of molecular structures is discussed.
  • (12) DETECTIVE BUNK Bunk likes to hit the sauce and is unfaithful to his wife.
  • (13) Ruth Ellis had shot an abusive and unfaithful lover in a fit of jealousy.
  • (14) Either way, she's now being blackmailed by ex-fiance Carl, who has nabbed her mobile phone and wants £30,000 or else Dan gets the truth over a pint of Old Unfaithful.
  • (15) The written plea hints at a desperation amongst detainees: “We are tired of endless and hopeless life of Manus prison … we would like to request you to do us a big favour and let us know if there is no hope or any chance so that we can call an end to our indefinite limbo here because we are tired of living on this unfaithful earth.” The letter is signed “Asylum seekers of Australia held in Manus”.
  • (16) A 39-year-old man suddenly became convinced that his wife had once been unfaithful to him, and soon thereafter he became depressed.
  • (17) For example, the two meals in La Femme Infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife, 1968) pointedly show the shift in the couple's relationship and the child's awareness of it.
  • (18) Women are, once again, relegated to supporting roles as unfaithful wives, hookers and weirdos.
  • (19) "Leaving aside him beating up his wife or being unfaithful, this is a guy with a profound sadness in him.
  • (20) According to Islamic teaching in the area, mental disorders are caused by evil spirits sent by God to punish the unfaithful people.