adulterous
Example Sentences
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As if thunderstruck, Leontes becomes irredeemably convinced that Polixenes’ acquiescence reveals an adulterous relationship between the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Rush appeared as Marsha Russell, a woman caring for her teen daughter amid a messy divorce with an adulterous husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
It was to Mr. Badinter that Mr. Mitterrand turned in 1984 to countersign, in strict secrecy, the document in which the president recognized Mazarine Pingeot, his daughter from an adulterous relationship.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
I feel like the message of Jesus is clearly one of love—the adulterous woman in the Gospel of John, “You who are without sin cast the first stone.”
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
What if the only thing I had discovered on this trip was that my grandfather was an adulterous liar?
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
