cuckold
noun
the husband of an unfaithful wife.
cuckolded
Example Sentences
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Forster’s marriage also brought him suffering—he was disdained by his wife and cuckolded by his friends—indeed, his marital situation may have given Goethe the basis for his 1809 novel “Elective Affinities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Smiley is thus an anti-James Bond, an unheroic, frequently cuckolded secret agent who looks like a shy and miserable clerk in an old London bank.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
That would be the same crazed, cuckolded Cardenio whom Don Quixote met in Chapter 23 of the novel, then helped reunite with his inamorata a hundred pages later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2016
It would have been incredibly easy for Haynes or Nagy to overplay the imprisoning quality of Carol’s life in New Jersey horse country, or to make her cuckolded husband into a cartoon 1950s villain.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2015
Hum—no, no, this is not to me—I am jilted, cozen'd, cuckolded, and so forth.—
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
