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[ US /əˈdəɫtɝəs/ ]
[ UK /ɐdˈʌltəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by adultery
    extramarital affairs
    the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband
    an adulterous relationship
  2. not faithful to a spouse or lover
    adulterous husbands and wives
    a two-timing boyfriend

How To Use adulterous In A Sentence

  • Kilpatrick and Betty appears in court to deny that afterward has the adulterous love affair.
  • Well, I mean, it's very rare you see the defense bringing in adulterous affairs on the part of their client!
  • Assume this to be a joke, an illness or a cover for an adulterous affair.
  • Actually, it seems to me that in medievalism (depictions of the medieval in the modern world), non-adulterous obstacles are more common. Literary Adultery
  • And at the heart of the book lies one of the most marvellous depictions of an adulterous affair in fiction.
  • The book is also about Dickinson's brother's long-term adulterous affair, which led to a feud within the family that carried over into a fight over Emily Dickinson's poems and her legacy after her death. Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson
  • The leadership of the family values Right is hopelessly compromised by its long-term adulterous affair with the Republican Party. An Empire of Widows and Orphans
  • The threat of which arrives in the person of Zhang (Sun Honglei), a taciturn detective hired by Wang to kill the adulterous couple.
  • After all, I thought, she had made me feel as if there was something polluted about me because I had been born a child out of an adulterous affair, even if the adulterer was her own mother. Into the Garden
  • Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
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