extramarital
adjective
ex·tra·mar·i·tal
ˌek-strə-ˈmer-ə-tᵊl 
-ˈma-rə-
: of, relating to, or being sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse : adulterous
an extramarital affair
Examples of extramarital in a Sentence
she had several extramarital affairs with coworkers
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Tabloids hinted at steamy extramarital affairs— perhaps a gigolo, a former love, a famous author, but nothing came of those speculations.
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
Eight of his closest aides reported him to the FBI in 2020, accusing him of bribery and abusing his office to help one of his friends and campaign contributors, Nate Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital affair.
—Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2025
Ashley Madison, a dating site for extramarital affairs, was hit by a data breach in 2015, which resulted in the personal data of 32 million users being leaked by a hacking group.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2025
The famous composer’s Y chromosome was inherited not from the common ancestor of all the van Beethovens living today, but from an unknown father—perhaps the result of an extramarital affair in the generations before he was born.
—Byandrew Curry, science.org, 6 Mar. 2025
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
Eight of his closest aides reported him to the FBI in 2020, accusing him of bribery and abusing his office to help one of his friends and campaign contributors, Nate Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital affair.
—Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2025
Ashley Madison, a dating site for extramarital affairs, was hit by a data breach in 2015, which resulted in the personal data of 32 million users being leaked by a hacking group.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2025
The famous composer’s Y chromosome was inherited not from the common ancestor of all the van Beethovens living today, but from an unknown father—perhaps the result of an extramarital affair in the generations before he was born.
—Byandrew Curry, science.org, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Extramarital.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extramarital. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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extramarital
adjective
ex·tra·mar·i·tal
ˌek-strə-ˈmar-ət-ᵊl
: of or relating to sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse
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