illicit love
Example Sentences
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A narrative seems to emerge of illicit love and rivalry, a tangled emotional soap opera.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020
At its height, it had three episodes a week, featuring illicit love affairs, hidden identities and all manner of small-town hypocrisy.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2018
With stories set in the ’60s through the ’80s, Collins weaves fictional narratives about relationships gone awry, illicit love, and strained family dynamics with memoiristic details from her own life.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017
It seems they’ve even shown up in O Magazine and are described as “the illicit love child of cake pops and those jarred cake mixes ubiquitous in holiday gift-giving.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2012
These implied inherent moral depravity, but "illicit" love was love outside the law of man, and did not of necessity and always involve moral guilt.
From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter
