Crossword clues for jilted
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
vb. (en-past of: jilt)
WordNet
Wikipedia
"Jilted" is a popular song with music by Dick Manning and lyrics by Robert Colby, published in 1954.
Teresa Brewer recorded the biggest-selling version on December 29, 1953. This recording was released by Coral Records as catalog number 61152. It first reached the U.S. Billboard chart on April 14, 1954, lasting 9 weeks and peaking at #14 on the Best Seller chart. and #6 altogether.
Other 1954 recordings were made by Diana Decker, Red Foley and by the UK based singers Alma Cogan and Joan Regan.
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
Jilted is a 1987 film directed by Bill Bennett.
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.