How to Use adulterer in a Sentence

adulterer

noun
  • Everyone knew who the drunk was, the adulterer, the cheat.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 14 May 2018
  • Our true challenge lies not with the drag queens without but rather with the adulterers and abusers within.
    David French, National Review, 19 June 2019
  • The man started yelling and screaming at the couple for being adulterers.
    Kenny Ocker, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2018
  • Most notably, there was no privacy: Everyone knew who the drunk, the cheat, or the adulterer was.
    Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • At a summer ball in 1980, Charles and Camilla made out on the dance floor in view of her husband, a prodigious adulterer himself.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
  • But plenty of adulterers are content with their home lives.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • However, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother-in-law is a killer.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Swapping the sexes of the adulterer and the wounded spouse both modernised the story and made the characters more relatable.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Part of it, the researchers write, is that adulterers seek to overcorrect because the cost of losing the relationship is so high.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But in Wednesday's interview, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother is a killer.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Consider the case of an East Coast woman, whose husband was a serial adulterer for decades.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • Watch out, ladies — Donald Trump Jr., an alleged adulterer who has some strong opinions about Disney princesses, will soon be on the market.
    Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Their camp is headed by a thrice-married adulterer who paid off two different women during his campaign and then won the White House.
    Glamour, 19 Mar. 2019
  • And, among sinners, does an adulterer merit the same punishment as a murderer?
    National Geographic, 13 May 2016
  • Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
    Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • When same-day hotel booking companies started showing up in the app store, a couple of years ago, my first thought was: This is very good news for blackout drunks and serial adulterers.
    Mark Byrne, GQ, 27 June 2017
  • Adultery makes numerous bad marriages bearable and holds them together and in some cases can make the adulterer a far more decent husband or wife than . . .
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • So on April 25th the government banned flogging as a punishment, to the relief of blasphemers, adulterers and liberals.
    The Economist, 2 May 2020
  • The Congolese who died at the 1897 fair were refused tombs in the consecrated part of the nearby parish cemetery, and were buried instead in a common grave in the ground reserved for suicides, paupers, prostitutes, and adulterers.
    Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Blunt was another serial adulterer, who had pursued a torrid affair with Mary’s mother in the 1870s.
    Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • One of the conversations that earned Bryant a reputation as a mean girl was her mention of rumors that painted co-star Wendy Osefo’s husband as an adulterer.
    Essence, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The same people today are celebrating Donald Trump — not in spite of his being a dishonest, crude serial adulterer but because of it.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Matt Sullivan conducts a deep exploration into the story of Larry Rudolph, a larger-than-life character who is at best an adulterer, and at worst a murderer.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 4 July 2022
  • In the video, Rogers compares homosexuals to male prostitutes and adulterers.
    Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 31 July 2017
  • There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that many Christians supported him may speak to a fall away from orthodox teaching and toward moral relativism and secular standards that allow a cheat, an adulterer, and a liar to be judged to be the better choice among candidates.
    Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
  • These episodes are unsavory occasions for voyeurism, and an apology adds nothing except a warm tingle of sanctimony for those who chase the adulterers with torches and pitchforks.
    Marcia Desanctis, Town & Country, 14 Feb. 2013
  • In One of the Boys, Rogers compares homosexuality to male prostitutes and adulterers.
    Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 6 July 2017
  • Psalm 23, attributed to King David — a repentant adulterer and murderer — invokes pastoral imagery to depict the Lord as a gentle, loving shepherd and the speaker as a helpless, fearful sheep in need of guidance.
    Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Shariah punishments like stoning adulterers and amputations for thieves, Al-Azhar says, are not applicable in the current age.
    Hamza Hendawi, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017

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