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mistress

noun as in woman in extramarital relationship

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He was reading the newspaper and in it was a story about Ali meeting Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, the Philippine president and his wife, and Ali introducing Veronica Porch, his mistress, as his wife.

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After two-and-a-half hours, the show ends with Gaga announcing she has defeated the "mistress of mayhem".

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At least Harold Macmillan understood, to use the parlance of his time, that history was a cruel mistress and was sure to leave him behind.

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Weighed down by accumulating stress, Cromwell falls ill, and in his delirium sees in the shadows Anne's ladies-in-waiting, hands covered in their mistress' blood.

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For years, Bridget longed for love to make her life perfect, playing the part of the girlfriend, the mistress and the wanton sex goddess.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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