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adulterous

[ uh-duhl-ter-uhs ]

adjective

  1. characterized by or involved in adultery; illicit:

    an adulterous relationship.



adulterous

/ əˈdʌltərəs /

adjective

  1. of, characterized by, or inclined to adultery
  2. an obsolete word for adulterate


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Derived Forms

  • aˈdulterously, adverb

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Other Words From

  • a·dulter·ous·ly adverb
  • una·dulter·ous adjective
  • una·dulter·ous·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of adulterous1

First recorded in 1400–50; adulter(y) + -ous; replacing late Middle English avoutrious, advouterose

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Example Sentences

There are long books and ongoing debates about whether the personal lives of adulterous politicians should be held against them.

Her novel, a fictionalized take on her Left Bank intellectual circle, centers on an adulterous woman torn between two men.

An adulterous affair could be used as blackmail if it fell into the hands of a foreign intelligence service.

Many of the abandoned babies born back then were out of wedlock or through adulterous liaisons.

To further explicate the obvious: “Uncommon”—i.e., adulterous—“arrangements vary hugely.”

They have gone to the adulterous rendezvous celebrated in the scandalous verses of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

What else is the laying of such a stress on miracles but the case of 'a wicked and adulterous generation asking a sign'?

How long to convert that adulterous woman in the temple, who was caught in the very act of adultery?

By adulterous love we mean the love of adultery, which destroys conjugial love, as above, n. 423.

The delights of adulterous love are the pleasures of insanity; but the delights of conjugial love are the delights of wisdom.

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