illicit love
Example Sentences
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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
It seems they’ve even shown up in O Magazine and are described as “the illicit love child of cake pops and those jarred cake mixes ubiquitous in holiday gift-giving.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2012
Phone tapping, dastardly political plots involving millionaire heiresses and illicit love affairs are not the kind of thing one expects to see in EastEnders.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010
She loved him as women love the child of an illicit love; obliged to suckle him, the duty never wearied her.
From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de
