adultery
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Princess Diana's famous "revenge dress" that she wore on the evening that then-Prince Charles made a public admission of adultery is to be auctioned in New York in December.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
As far as I know, Mr. Siegelman has never been credibly accused of adultery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
She later accused him of adultery again leading to Kimberley trying to barricade herself in a room.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Can you bridge the ethical chasm in a man who hates adultery but seems neutral about most other sins?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
It was almost as bad as adultery or stealing—maybe just as bad.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
This is what M. Flaubert desired to paint, and not the adulteries of a woman of the provinces.
From The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert by Various
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