adulterous
Example Sentences
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Nearly a decade later, after a fight with her adulterous husband, the 25-year-old Follett left her apartment in Brookline, Mass., with $30 in her pocket and a notebook.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
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
The ensemble cast features the Oscar-winning performances of Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper, the adulterous wife of the high school sports coach and Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion, the town’s popular businessman.
From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2023
Cook’s Tom Ripley-like story — and the wary narrator’s retelling of it — is loaded with fateful encounters, hidden agendas, shrouded identities, adulterous betrayals and brushes with death.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
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
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