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How to use adulterous in a sentence

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Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction.
Not only is Jimmy adulterous, alcoholic, womanizing, and guilty of incest, he has astonishing contempt for his wife.
It was still an adulterous affair, but the time-travel device distanced the audience from the fact.
In 1995 the Dean was accused in a consistory court of having had an adulterous affair with a former verger, nearly 30 years his junior.
The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play.
One group was allegedly from a miscegenous union, and the other group from an adulterous union.
Even the ones who threatened a wobbly lower lip and adulterous quick beating of the heart proved to be a thorough anti-climax.
The first part of the essay is a story which her mother tells her about her allegedly adulterous aunt, villainized and accused of harlotry.
Matthew Paris insisted that she and her husband were vicious and adulterous and that John threatened to hang her gallants over her bed.
In stark contrast to the rigorous obedience of the Forerunner, Ava presents the adulterous lascivity of King Herod.
Why, to nerve herself for an adulterous affair, does she reread The Red and the Black in English?
Matters aren't helped when the investigation opens up a can of worms including blackmail, secrets, and adulterous affairs.
He skilfully convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has been adulterous with Cassio.
Other men are deceived by wives who bear children through adulterous liaisons and who mislead them into thinking that the children are theirs.
Given the nature of the protagonists, it was hard to believe the tales of a torrid, adulterous affair were true.
In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy.
That is why they had been reluctant to give their adulterous sister a proper burial.
And at the heart of the book lies one of the most marvellous depictions of an adulterous affair in fiction.
The protagonist of this novel, married young to a much older man, embarks on an adulterous liaison with one of his friends.
The opera deals with a Protestant minister who publicly forgives his wife after discovering she has had an adulterous affair in his absence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have been drunken, adulterous, heartless, but from this night I will be good again.
The love between the king and her was unlawful and adulterous.
By forgiving the adulterous woman, Jesus was not making a statement against the death penalty.
Were you indeed my son, or were you the pledge of adulterous love?
Finally, he starts prophesying in the direction of the murderous and adulterous king, at which point his career reaches its noble and inevitable conclusion.
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