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adultery

[uh-duhl-tuh-ree] / əˈdʌl tə ri /


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Mr. Starkey also revisits the charges of adultery against Catherine Howard and argues that she was a woman whom men had cynically used.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Paxton, whose unsavory resume includes impeachment, indictment, petty theft and charges of adultery, has managed the rare feat of turning his race against Talarico into a nail-biter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Princess Diana's famous "revenge dress" that she wore on the evening that then-Prince Charles made a public admission of adultery is to be auctioned in New York in December.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

She later accused him of adultery again leading to Kimberley trying to barricade herself in a room.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Supporters of Adams said that Rachel Jackson was guilty of adultery and bigamy.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Marry Me: 'It crossed my mind to keep running totals of the divorces, separations, adulteries, sexual humiliations, maimings, deaths and thwarted hopes that these tiny stories compass.'

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imputation of adulteries after death, how effected, 485, 489, 493; these imputations take place after death, not according to circumstances, which are external of the deed, but according to internal circumstances of the mind, 530.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg




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