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Grammar : Adj
Spell : jilt
Phonetic Transcription : dʒɪlt



Definition of jilted

Origin :
  • "to deceive (especially after holding out hopes), cheat, trick," 1660s, from the same source as jilt (n.). Related: Jilted; jilting.
  • adj left
Example sentences :
  • But what makes me sick is to have everyone saying you've jilted me.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • But I hope the poor man, though I don't like him, has not been jilted?
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • She jilted him with a jolt that knocked his heart out of his mouth.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • He had become engaged to a certain Miss Mary Tremenhere, and by her he had been—jilted.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • It was said truly of him that the girl had jilted him, but falsely of her that she had been jilted.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • She could not bear to live in Exeter as the girl that had been jilted.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • Then had come her downfall, in which it was commonly said of her that she had been jilted by her lover.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • I too have had a lover, and I have—jilted him, if you please to call it so.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • But there was a doubt as to this point, and people said that he had been jilted—much to his disgust.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • Then Sir Francis had been jilted, and Dick had again become indispensable to him.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope

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