cuckoldry

Examples

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• You see female cuckoldry, this great Victorian term.

• Well, there's a lot of research that shows when a child is born, the custom across all cultures is for people to say, "Oh my God, the baby looks exactly like the father"—and especially so, the mother's side of the family because that serves as an insurance policy against cuckoldry.

  Academic text (2013)

• But the parents' devices to combat cuckoldry do not stop at spawning.

  Academic text (2005)

• Cuckoldry is such an old-fashioned word for what I was doing to Max, but in view of our close relationship, I found the term appropriate.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I mean, in modern populations, quote unquote, cuckoldry is quite uncommon.

  Chris Williamson

• Even as he watches for signs of his imminent cuckoldry, he is also keen to observe and emulate Molly's authorial strategies.

  Academic text (2017)

• If jealousy is a domain-specific response designed to prevent cuckoldry for men and prevent resource diversion for women, then the race of the person with whom the infidelity was committed should have no impact on jealousy.

  Academic text (2005)

• In addition to being the late Governor Moreno of our great state, he was the same self-serving cur who had aided and abetted my beautiful and soon-to-be-ex-wife in the fine, old practice of cuckoldry, or cheating, as in "Your Cheating Heart," if you prefer Hank Williams to William Shakespeare, as most folks do.

  Fiction book (2001)

• What Iago attempts to transmit to Othello is a fear of cuckoldry; he states in his evil invocation at the end of Act 3, "I hate the Moor, / And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets / He has done my office" (1.3.368-70).

  Academic text (2017)

• Cuckoldry can cause deep emotional pain for a husband when he discovers his wife's cuckoldry.

Synonyms

C

cuckolding

vscuckoldry

• NSFW

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When a married person has sex with someone else while their partner watches

focuses on a husband deceived by an unfaithful wife not a consensual watched act

C

cuckoldom

vscuckoldry

• NSFW

1 9.9

The situation when a man's wife has sex with another man

focuses on the deceptive act that causes a husband to be cheated on

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology