What's the difference between cuckoldly and cuckoldry?

Cuckoldly


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.

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.

Cuckoldry


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the present study also support the idea that cuckoldry is a problem for the territory holder.

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