Adultery Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-dŭltə-rē, -trē
Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his wife, or between a married woman and a man not her husband
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fornication
  2. infidelity
  3. criminal conversation
  4. unlicensed intercourse
  5. connivance
  6. corespondent
  7. cuckoldry
  8. cuckold
  9. extramarital affair
  10. unfaithfulness
  11. wittol
Antonyms:
  1. faithfulness
  2. fidelity
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. extramarital
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Adultery Sentence Examples

  • The penalty for adultery was the loss of the eyes,.

  • Nothing of the sort, but there's a difference between con­senting adults and adultery.

  • When a divorce is obtained because of adultery, permission of the guilty party to marry again is in the discretion of the court.

  • A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexius were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.

  • Society is described as honeycombed with crimes and vices; prophets, priests, princes and the people generally are said to practise unblushingly extortion, oppression, murder, falsehood, adultery (xxii.).

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