philanderer

[ fi-lan-der-er ]

noun

1. a person, usually a man, who has many casual sexual encounters or affairs, especially when married or in a committed relationship:

   After three of his infidelities, she’d finally had enough of a husband who by all accounts had become a serial philanderer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of philanderer¹

philander ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times

He was a compulsive gambler and a bit of a philanderer, and I thought, I know what he was doing.

From Salon

I could tell them he wasn’t an American veteran at all—he was Canadian, and he was actually pretty rabidly anti-American, an oil engineer–turned–environmentalist, a serial philanderer.

From Slate

It’s not a coincidence that the early anti-abortion movement in the U.S. was one headed by men, in reaction to expanding rights, freedom, and power for women—just as it is not a coincidence that today’s anti-abortion movement, formed in opposition to rapid gains in women’s rights during the 1960s and ’70s, has seen its most significant victory thanks to the most overtly misogynistic president in modern American history, a serial philanderer, a many-times-accused sexual harasser and assailant, a man recently found liable for sexual abuse.

From Slate

It doesn’t matter if he’s a fascist, authoritarian, a despot, a philanderer, a numbskull, a loon, or a spoiled brat who has mommy and daddy issues.

From Salon