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extramarital

[ ek-struh-mar-i-tl ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to sexual relations with someone other than one's spouse:

    extramarital affairs.



extramarital

/ ˌɛkstrəˈmærɪtəl /

adjective

  1. (esp of sexual relations) occurring outside marriage


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Word History and Origins

Origin of extramarital1

First recorded in 1925–30; extra- + marital

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Example Sentences

So are bringing up a child, running a household in a foreign country and concealing an extramarital affair.

He used his good credit to purchase property that he chose to wine and dine his extramarital affairs.

Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Scott divorced in 2019, after details of his extramarital affair emerged.

Nowadays, the same could be said for your typical extramarital affair.

At the start of this month, Cal Cunningham admitted to an extramarital affair after texts were published.

But also real, unscripted, and sometimes painfully honest, as when Dave owned up to his extramarital misbehavior.

Extramarital affair rumors (even though, for years the papers did not report them) have never been a problem for Juan Carlos.

It is not just the men in China who are open about their extramarital solicitations.

Alexander Hamilton publicly apologized for an extramarital affair, two centuries before Bill Clinton.

Your wife then filed for divorce, citing a string of extramarital affairs.

Tim Fisher obviously desired extramarital relations with Mrs. Bagley—or was it premarital relations?

But to prevent intermarriage is only a small part of the solution, since most mulattoes come from extramarital miscegenation.

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