as in adulterous
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
she had several extramarital affairs with coworkers
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Tuesday’s post was not the first time the Grammy winner came clean about an extramarital affair.
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Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
Because why else would a woman subject herself to being the third wheel in an unfulfilling extramarital affair?
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
Last week, jurors heard of how Cohen set up the bank account in the waning days of the 2016 race to get money to Daniels in a hurry so voters wouldn’t learn her allegations of an extramarital tryst with Trump, wiring it via a shell company, Essential Consultants LLC.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
In these stories, knowledge itself functions a bit like the heroine’s extramarital affair in the novel of adultery.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
Because why else would a woman subject herself to being the third wheel in an unfulfilling extramarital affair?
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
Last week, jurors heard of how Cohen set up the bank account in the waning days of the 2016 race to get money to Daniels in a hurry so voters wouldn’t learn her allegations of an extramarital tryst with Trump, wiring it via a shell company, Essential Consultants LLC.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
In these stories, knowledge itself functions a bit like the heroine’s extramarital affair in the novel of adultery.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Extramarital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extramarital. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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