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adultery

[uh-duhl-tuh-ree] / əˈdʌl tə ri /


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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

Hence war, hence adultery, hence bestiality, Tim continues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Gbagbo hit back at her husband - through her lawyer, she accused Laurent of "blatant and well-known adultery" and "abandonment of the marital home".

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

I think of last night and the idea of my mother committing adultery, hating my father for broken promises, and despising her only child who remains in town.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

I was afterwards grieved in spirit to think that marriages, which in the most ancient times had been most holy, were so wretchedly changed into adulteries.

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


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