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jilted
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Wikipedia
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Jilted is the past tense of jilt and may refer to: Jilted (song) , a 1954 single by Theresa Brewer and others Jilted , a 2008 song and accompanying video by the Puppini Sisters Jilted (film) , a 1987 Australian feature film
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jilt \Jilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jilted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jilting .] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. --Locke.
Wiktionary
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vb. (en-past of: jilt )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar" [syn: rejected , spurned ]
Usage examples of jilted.
She replied that it had been no very pleasant thing for him when she jilted him, and she would not for the world have him subjected to another such slight.
You know, for all she jilted him they are still wondrous great, and there’s no telling what she might take it into her head to do, for I am sure she is very odd and unaccountable.
It is unthinkable that he should be twice jilted, and this time for such a Bartholomew baby as Gerard—a silly boy that is half flash and half foolish, and his own ward besides!
Though she does not regret it, I believe she thinks that she didn’t use him well, which is why she must feel it so particularly, now that it seems as though he will be jilted a second time.
Then after you jilted her and after you left the employ of the firm, we were married.
He did this so successfully that at the end of the evening he was convinced that it was not Maria who had jilted him, but the Essenland captain who had jilted Maria.