adultery
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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