adultery
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As far as I know, Mr. Siegelman has never been credibly accused of adultery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Ms Martin's father Christopher had in turn produced the 1994 ITV documentary with Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles confessed to adultery.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
I never mentioned the previously familiar subjects of adultery and fornication, and I never mentioned immoral evils.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
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
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
Christ said: “From within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.”
From Sowing and Reaping by Dwight Lyman Moody
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