philander
verb (used without object)
(especially of a man) to have many casual sexual encounters or affairs, especially when married or in a committed relationship.
was philandering
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past progressiveof philander.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Life at Plato was suspicious, prejudiced, provincial, as it affected the ambitious students; and for the weaker brethren it was philandering and vague.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
And the thought that he was philandering his time away with those Caws made me ready for almost anything.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
She was still abroad, and he heard from time to time that Mavick was philandering about from capital to capital in her train.
From The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner
The lady was philandering with an orange ice.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
And the net result of it all was that Peter, irrevocably bound to another woman, had fallen in love with Nan, while the latter was philandering desperately with a totally unsuitable second string.
From The Moon out of Reach by Margaret Pedler
