illicit love
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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
But after hearing “I’ll Be the Moon,” which explores the power imbalance in an illicit love affair, Mr. Bentley concluded it was missing an essential element: “‘Where’s the girl that he’s talking about?
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016
Phone tapping, dastardly political plots involving millionaire heiresses and illicit love affairs are not the kind of thing one expects to see in EastEnders.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010
"Do you mean to say that the repugnance felt by the masses for illicit love and moral laxity is a prejudice?"
From The Duel and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
