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adultery
noun as in extramarital affair
Strongest match
Example Sentences
Maybe the main reason this novel lacks the tension of the author’s others is its treatment of adultery.
He worried over the deceit and complicated logistics required by adultery but wrote to Martha that “adoring women seems to me a man’s proper activity.”
Angela Paxton, a Texas state senator, filed for divorce from Paxton in July, citing adultery as the reason for ending 38 years of marriage.
Having spent a lifetime writing about infidelity, she then felt the sting of adultery.
Such themes are highly taboo in Indonesia, where adultery is punishable with jail time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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