jilt

Trying to remain friends ruined Jack’s marriage and made Alice jilt another man at the altar.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

The jilt can stoke resentment, spark identity crises.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

Every time you are tempted to respond, look at your fiancé—the one who didn’t jilt you and lie to you.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2019

Amos was raised in Maryland, a Led Zeppelin-loving daughter of a minister, and self-taught pianist who would jilt both church and conservatoire to forge her own sound in the 90s: wildly original, taboo-busting piano pop.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2017

Just making her cheery outset on this second lifetime, you can't suppose she would have been glad to hear that her son was going to jilt her, and appoint another queen in her stead.

From The Rector by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Then she watches as he jilts her for Julie Andrews’s Maria, a 19-year-old wannabe nun who runs around wearing drapes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

In “Queen,” the female lead takes a European “honeymoon” by herself after her fiance jilts her.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

The film stars Jill Clayburgh as a thirtysomething gallerist, wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when her stockbroker husband jilts her for a younger woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2014

San Diego State jilts Big East, staying in Mountain West San Diego State is staying in the Mountain West and backing out on the Big East — just like Boise State did last month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2013

The jade jilts us all at times,” drawled Volney, as he raked in his winnings carelessly.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis

In 2018, a judge awarded a jilted husband almost $9 million, after he alleged that another man lured his wife away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

FBI agent Ron Elder, now retired, was working the case out of Topeka, Kan., and said he located the Doyles with the help of a jilted girlfriend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

They also included twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the founders of crypto platform Gemini, who were made famous as jilted investors in the movie "The Social Network" about the birth of Facebook.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Twice jilted, Rangers are putting out the notion that they might still get back together sometime in the future.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

Throughout his career, if he felt like taking a day off, he’d just pack up and go, leaving his exasperated agent and jilted trainers hunting for him.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Within a decade of his death, Angelenos were jilting horseflesh contests for horsepower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

“Amazon’s hiring spree is concentrated in Seattle,” this newspaper reported, adding that this is a “degree of rebuke” to the idea the company is jilting us over the payroll tax.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

Killebrew and Allison took the Twins to the World Series in 1965, while Senators 2.0 had one winning season before again jilting the city and moving to Texas in 1972.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018

Even Joe left a year early, jilting Snyder.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2013

He was very young and impetuous; perhaps that is putting it too mildly; he had a shocking temper, and he didn't take his jilting at all peaceably.

From The Daughter Pays by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds