illicit love

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A narrative seems to emerge of illicit love and rivalry, a tangled emotional soap opera.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

At its height, it had three episodes a week, featuring illicit love affairs, hidden identities and all manner of small-town hypocrisy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2018

With stories set in the ’60s through the ’80s, Collins weaves fictional narratives about relationships gone awry, illicit love, and strained family dynamics with memoiristic details from her own life.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017

But after hearing “I’ll Be the Moon,” which explores the power imbalance in an illicit love affair, Mr. Bentley concluded it was missing an essential element: “‘Where’s the girl that he’s talking about?

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016

These implied inherent moral depravity, but "illicit" love was love outside the law of man, and did not of necessity and always involve moral guilt.

From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter