Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Flirting; “spooning.”
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- verb Present participle of
philander . - noun The action of philandering.
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Examples
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His philandering is a now well established fact in political lore, and in National history, with his "impeachment" over sexual conduct with an intern, within the White House.
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Or blame it on the idea that, since Mr. Strauss-Kahn is well-known as a philandering rogue, he must perforce also be a brute.
The DSK Lesson Bret Stephens 2011
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Or blame it on the idea that, since Mr. Strauss-Kahn is well-known as a philandering rogue, he must perforce also be a brute.
The DSK Lesson Bret Stephens 2011
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At least one wife has learned, when she boots her husband out, that his philandering has been a form of bullying.
Archive 2009-07-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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At least one wife has learned, when she boots her husband out, that his philandering has been a form of bullying.
Adultery Carnival: John Updike's Couples and the Sexual Revolution Tenured Radical 2009
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Denise McCarthy Goward, a relative of Kingston's long-suffering wife, Lucy McCarthy, said his philandering was the talk of the town in Adelaide at the turn of the last century.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Denise McCarthy Goward, a relative of Kingston's long-suffering wife, Lucy McCarthy, said his philandering was the talk of the town in Adelaide at the turn of the last century.
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I dunno about his vanity, but I think the "philandering" part has been established to be more than a "tabloid image", don't you?
Response: We were Tommy Sheridan's loyal comrades, not his harem 2011
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She accepted his 'philandering' as she kept stating she didn't want anything more than just a casual friendship.
Archive 2007-12-01 Chickenlady 2007
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She accepted his 'philandering' as she kept stating she didn't want anything more than just a casual friendship.
Passwords, statistics and lies we tell ourselves Chickenlady 2007
bilby commented on the word philandering
"Writing in next month's issue of the journal Human Nature, a team led by Paul Andrews of Virginia Commonwealth University report that in their study of 203 young couples, men's hunches about fidelity or infidelity were 94 per cent correct. Women got it right only 80 per cent of the time.
Dr Andrews's group found men were more likely to catch a philandering partner, detecting 75 per cent of infidelities, compared with 41 per cent caught out by women."
- Leigh Dayton, 'Men's suspicious minds better at spotting infidelity', The Australian, 14 Nov 2008.
November 14, 2008
lampbane commented on the word philandering
Penny Arcade (04/23/10):
"You know what else is cool? Philandering. How does one get started with that?"
June 8, 2010