jilt
verb (used with object)
to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
have jilted
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present perfectof jilt.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Insecurity has spawned coups whose leaders have jilted regional and Western states.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Do you mean to say you have jilted me?
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
She said she never would have jilted a stranger, but that by jilting me, she only exercised the right everybody has of snubbing their own relations.
From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
One thing was certain: it could be no ordinary disagreement—she must have jilted him.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
