(v. i.) To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
(n.) A lover.
(n.) A South American opossum (Didelphys philander).
(n.) An Australian bandicoot (Perameles lagotis).
Example Sentences:
(1) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(2) Must he go philandering, or must he go on writing sexist plays?
(3) But here are our friends, shouting along with the soap script, playing their parts as the vindictive husband, the philandering wife.
(4) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(5) The neurohypophyseal hormones of two South American opossums (Didelphis marsupialis and Philander opossum) were isolated by molecular sieving and preparative high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(6) In May, the prime minister was more exercised by the flouting of privacy injunctions on Twitter, saying that the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today" because it was unfair that newspapers were unable to identify philandering celebrities such as Ryan Giggs, who had taken out an injunction, when their identity was freely circulating on Twitter .
(7) He always denied knowing about Kennedy’s extensive philandering, even though Kennedy’s mistress at his death, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was Bradlee’s sister-in-law.
(8) Maria Sharapova under pressure over meldonium use as sponsors flee Read more Her admission that she had failed a drug test at this year’s Australian Open wasn’t quite in the class of Tiger Woods’s 2010 confession of serial philandering, one of the clumsiest attempts to deliberately confuse guilt and innocence seen outside the precincts of a courtroom.
(9) That, he adds, may be good news for the likes of Wayne Rooney and his fellow England players who have been hit by allegations of philandering in recent weeks.
(10) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(11) A multilamellate body (MLB), bearing close resemblance to an array of annulate lamellae, has been observed in several adenohypophysial cell types of the teleost, Hemihaplochromis philander.
(12) In contrast with Breaking Bad's murderous drug kingpin and Mad Men's philandering ad executive, Woodhull is a good man who, in 1778, becomes a spy in order to help George Washington defeat the dastardly British redcoats.
(13) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(14) The strain was isolated from one gray "four-eyed" opossum (Philander opossum).
(15) Some of those who backed George Osborne before the chancellor knowingly burned what remained of his ambitions by publishing that fantasy Brexit punishment budget will now back her, as will some Tory women worried that female voters distrust the philandering Johnson.
(16) He was philandering on a grand scale, oblivious to the hurt he might be causing those close to him.
(17) Bring back the crime of the week What happened to the philandering senators?
(18) He maintained that claims of his philandering were ill-founded, but his lifestyle certainly encompassed heavy drinking and smoking more than 50 cigarettes a day, at least until he underwent heart bypass surgery in 1993.
(19) Iso-enzyme characterization of 22 stocks isolated (16 from D. marsupialis, 3 from Philander opossum and 3 from Rhodnius prolixus) revealed that they were all related to zymodeme 1 of Miles.
(20) Donald ("Call me Don") Draper, Hamm's philandering, shifting, amoral yet tortured, martini-drinking, fag-smoking antihero has become shorthand for the Mad Men phenomenon.
Philanderer
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs about women; a male flirt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(2) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
(3) In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect."
(4) But the courts appear to be drawing the curtains on the bedroom antics of high-profile philanderers by denying the women their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy.
(5) He may not care for effete toffs, but he got on like a house on fire with the posh MP, diarist and serial philanderer Alan Clark.
(6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
(7) In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect.
(8) Shock value EastEnders: Michelle's teenage pregnancy, 1985 Viewers were kept guessing about the father of Michelle Fowler's child – revealed as Den Watts Emmerdale: plane crash, 1993 The Yorkshire soap began a trend for "stunt" disaster storylines Brookside: lesbian kiss, 1993 UK TV's first lesbian kiss between Anna Friel's Beth Jordache and Nicola Stephenson's Margaret Clemence EastEnders: buried alive, 2008 Philanderer Max Branning is buried alive by his estranged wife EastEnders: gay Muslim on-screen kiss, 2009 Property developer Syed Masood arrives in Albert Square with a girlfriend, but falls for Christian Clarke Coronation Street: tram crash, 2010 The ITV soap marked its 50th anniversary with the most spectacular disaster storyline yet
(9) Tod T Friendly, doctor and sometime philanderer, is a man whose inner self seems hidden from his passing conquests. "