Example Sentences

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And he sang a wide range of Wagner’s fathers, cuckolds, giants and monarchs.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2017

In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author's familiar gallery of upper-class English clowns, cuckolds and bounders in the not entirely comic opera that was England between the wars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very few men, however, take their complaints to the People’s Court for fear of appearing weak or, unthinkably, as cuckolds.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

What! are we cuckolds ere we have deserv'd it?

From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William