adultery
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We are a long way from those midcentury stories, like “Citizen Kane,” whose decisive moments hinged on adultery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
She later accused him of adultery again leading to Kimberley trying to barricade herself in a room.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
The mystery that Cave carves out of Fred’s apparent adultery is so thin that it’s transparent.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
The military is particularly strict about romantic relationships, with rules against adultery, liaisons between employees of different rank, and various other types of relationships that could create ethical pitfalls.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
Supporters of Adams said that Rachel Jackson was guilty of adultery and bigamy.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
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
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
The complexion of the empress was so lovely, that she never wore rouge; and surely such eyes as hers needed none of the "adulteries of art" to heighten their brilliancy or beauty.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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