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The Many Synonyms of Cuckold
One of the more glaring inequities of the English language is that it has a significantly larger number of words for “a man whose wife is unfaithful” than it does for “a woman whose man is unfaithful.” Cuckold is perhaps the best known of these words, and it has many synonyms, including (but by no means restricted to) cornute, cornuto, hoddy-doddy, hoddypoll, horn, ram, and wittol (a man who is aware of his wife’s infidelity and acquiesces to it). What of a woman whose husband is unfaithful? For that our language appears to have but a single word, and an obscure one at that: cuckquean.
Examples of cuckold in a Sentence
The Week Uk, theweek, 12 Sep. 2024
Resting among the fashion and art books, including the works of Tom Ford, lining the hallway are two ceramic hands from his native Naples that one of his brothers gave him, one hand making the sign of a cuckold, the other with a middle finger in the air.
—Jason Horowitz, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
On August 25, Jerry Falwell Jr., former president of Liberty University and one of the first on the Christian right to endorse Trump in 2016, was forced to resign from his post after being outed as a cuckold.
—Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
Her husband whisks her away, surprised and humiliated by the revelation and by having been exposed as a cuckold in front of his peers.
—Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
Bloom is a Dubliner, a Jew, a husband and father, a racehorse-fancier, a cuckold—an Everyman, though not the kind that every man would wish to be.
—James Campbell, WSJ, 15 June 2022
Affleck, who once upon a time might’ve played one of those rivals, embraces the role of the quietly seething cuckold.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
And also, for some reason, making his rusty BFF Mater a cuckold.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
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“Cuckold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckold. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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