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adultery

[uh-duhl-tuh-ree] / əˈdʌl tə ri /


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As far as I know, Mr. Siegelman has never been credibly accused of adultery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

She was accused of adultery, incest and treason and was executed.

From BBC May 1, 2026

The mystery that Cave carves out of Fred’s apparent adultery is so thin that it’s transparent.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2025

Can you bridge the ethical chasm in a man who hates adultery but seems neutral about most other sins?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2025

They were brought before Muslim courts and charged with adultery and they confessed.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

So much better in every respect are the works of nature than the adulteries of art.

From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson




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