adultery
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She was accused of adultery, incest and treason and was executed.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Directed by André Gregory, the writer’s latest sees a four-person cast delivering long passages that together tell a familiar story of love, ennui and adultery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the “grounds for divorce.”
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
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
Had Margaery Tyrell somehow wriggled free of the accusations of fornication, adultery, and high treason?
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
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
Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Romance, in American fiction, still means only a somewhat childish amorousness and sentimentality—the love affairs of Paul and Virginia, or the pale adulteries of their elders.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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