(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.
Womanise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as Emmanuel, there's Barry Sloane, who's swapped being Chester's resident psycho Niall (you remember: blew up a church to kill his own sister) to play the mysterious Aiden in Revenge; and Max Brown, who's starred in everything from Grange Hill to The Tudors, is now playing a womanising doctor in the CW Network's Beauty And The Beast.
(2) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(3) But they bonded immediately: not over the obvious (Freud was almost as well known for his womanising as for painting) but over their mothers.
(4) He's also monstrously irresponsible, a narcissist, womaniser and bully; the likely outcome, says the show's creator Adam Reed, of being "rich and handsome and getting to travel everywhere, and not ever having to deal personally with any consequences of what you do".
(5) 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."
(6) A womaniser, who despises feminists and mocks environmentalists, Klaus regards his fellow Czech politicians as political pygmies.
(7) He was the child of two drunks, the father domineering, miserly, a womaniser but unloving, the mother creative but weak, broken and helpless.
(8) Duke also developed a reputation for being a womaniser.
(9) Escorted the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi home to die in August 2009 "and persisted in his hard-partying, womanising ways, a source of concern in a socially conservative country like Libya".
(10) And at the same time that he'd been busy exposing Tory ministers and soap stars for sexual double standards, he had himself been a serial womaniser, all the while playing happy families back home in Surrey.
(11) He was described as seeming almost to be ‘obsessed with women’, and an ‘incorrigible womaniser’.” One female editorial member of the team gave evidence about “the almost daily sexual harassment” experienced at the hands of Hall.
(12) The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the ousting of his previously powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek for crimes including faction-building and “dissolute and depraved” behaviour involving drug use, womanising and gambling, North Korean media has announced.
(13) The majority of staff witnesses we spoke to knew or had heard that Hall was a womaniser,” the report says.
(14) The tycoon used an interview aired on Monday to apologise for the tirade against black people caught on tape last month but then depicted Johnson, who has HIV, of being a womanising disease-carrier.
(15) Locks said his image for womanising was of “no concern to me … many ask me how I keep him in line.
(16) North Korea has said it has executed the uncle of Kim Jong-un , the country's leader, claiming he was a traitor who tried to grab power and that he was a corrupt womaniser.
(17) It has become a cliche that Guthrie was a womaniser, but what does that mean?
(18) By his own gloating, but tortured, confession, he was a career womaniser, a glum joke as a husband, and sometimes pitiful as a father.
(19) Tom Cruise is seeking a high-profile star to play an alcoholic, womanising former US president in a new comedy: three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson .
(20) In the meantime, after Horrible Bosses there's The Change Up, in which Bateman subverts his persona when he mystically swaps bodies with a womanising slacker played by Ryan Reynolds; at last, the straitjacket of straightness is cast off!