adultery
noun
voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their lawful spouse.
adulteries
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pluralof adultery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Romance, in American fiction, still means only a somewhat childish amorousness and sentimentality—the love affairs of Paul and Virginia, or the pale adulteries of their elders.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
