| 单词 | philanderer |
| 释义 | philanderer (once / 45635 pages) n A philanderer is a guy who likes women. A lot. So much that he's got a beautiful wife — and a date with a different girl every weekend. The phil in philanderer means "love" and a philanderer's love never seems to stop. "So many ladies, so little time..." — That may just be the motto of the quintessential philanderer, those delightful serial womanizers who specialize in brief affairs of the carnal kind. A philandering husband doesn't just have a wandering eye. He also has wandering hands, and probably a long line of jilted lovers. WORD FAMILYphilanderer: philanderers+/philander: philandered, philanderer, philandering, philanders USAGE EXAMPLESDuring a 2003 production of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Philanderer,” actor Conrad Feininger would briefly cross behind the set, out of the audience’s view. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Her new neighbors don’t like her much, especially after a store-bought quiche she enters in a baking contest seems to have poisoned the resident philanderer. New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) Suddenly, the long-divorced philanderer has an incentive to remarry, and Marla, rather than auditioning for a movie, turns out to be auditioning for his life. The New Yorker(Nov 22, 2016) n a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them Syn|Hypo|Hyper womaniser, womanizer Casanova any man noted for his amorous adventures Don Juanany successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman) Lotharioa successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women masher, skirt chaser, wolf, woman chasera man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women debauchee, libertine, rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained adult male, manan adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
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