as in cheating
a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
adultery is the cause of many divorces
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Recent Examples of adultery
In Good Partner and a few other dramas—Bitter Sweet Hell, A Virtuous Business and Marry My Husband—adultery was the primary reason for divorce.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The flick was a comedic noir that imagined a Hollywood where cartoons and humans live together, and the plot involved murder, adultery, blackmail and other adult topics.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
She’s getting beheaded for committing adultery with a distant cousin.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The flick was a comedic noir that imagined a Hollywood where cartoons and humans live together, and the plot involved murder, adultery, blackmail and other adult topics.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
She’s getting beheaded for committing adultery with a distant cousin.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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“Adultery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adultery. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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