How to Use adulterous in a Sentence

adulterous

adjective

• Cap off my year abroad with a stint as the adulterous flavor-of-the-month.
  — Paz Pardo, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Kerr and Lancaster star as Karen and Milton, a pair of adulterous lovers who get lost in the ebb and flow of the waves and the toss and turn of each other.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2022
• But the stories seemed to her more insidious and more familiar, too: The trope of the adulterous wife is as old as time.
  — Mattie Kahn, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• There had been famous and adulterous couples before, but not in wide-screen, and not with the glut and the glare that came to be so pronounced in the case of Burton and Taylor.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• An adulterous wife who murders her adulterous husband, and is in turn killed by her son.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• The fact that adulterous Stan can sleep better in his suburban home is an afterthought.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• The problem with adulterous relationships is that more often than not, the spouse catches on.
  — Abby, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
• Shoba Narayan enacts Hamilton's loving wife for whom his adulterous fling burns deeply but who vows to tell his story.
  — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2018
• The only big shot in recent memory who gained my sympathy in the midst of his adulterous scandal was Gov. Mark Sanford.
  — Maura Kelly, Marie Claire, 16 Feb. 2010
• The court documents detailed how Princess Haya had begun an adulterous relationship with one of her male bodyguards.
  — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020
• Rush appeared as Marsha Russell, a woman caring for her teen daughter amid a messy divorce with an adulterous husband.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• The show will also cover the death of one twin sister in a car wreck, the mysterious death of a wife of an adulterous cop, and many more surprising turns that come with the territory of determining cause of death.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 9 May 2020
• While that petty beehive thief might simply be hanged, an adulterous beehive-thieving murderer could be dragged to the place of execution with painful stops along the way for pinching with red-hot tongs.
  — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• More problematic still is a corny story line in which Theo suspects that the lead neurologist might be carrying on some kind of adulterous affair with his dead wife’s brain print.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• Lots of women have a feel-good story of bonding with another woman over the same caddish, disrespectful, or adulterous dude.
  — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2022
• Rumors have abounded for years about Philip’s supposed adulterous behavior—but The Crown has yet to lean in to those whispers, only gently alluding that Philip has a slight case of wandering eye.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 10 Apr. 2017
• Oakley’s chemistry with the limber and disarming Bryan Fenkart, who plays the tempting doctor Dr. Pomatter, makes the adulterous portion of the plot click vibrantly into place.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• It’s never the adulterous urinating or alte kaker underwear-sniffing that shock me.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• In fact, he had been investigated by his command for having … an adulterous affair.
  — Asena Basak, CBS News, 3 July 2019
• Smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart tech absorb adulterous evidence like a sponge.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• The romantic farce follows Lemmon’s Bud Baxter up the corporate ladder—his success largely due his willingness to lend his abode to his adulterous bosses—and through the fumbles of the dating game.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• That said, adulterous Ashley Madison users probably felt secure as well.
  — David Lazarus, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Penelope and Clytemnestra, good wife and bad, require and imply one another—and adulterous Clytemnestra, of course, is keeping the faith in her own way by punishing Agamemnon, who sacrificed their daughter for a good wind.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Growling tensions of poverty, prejudice and exclusion rise into the roar of a plot that takes in forbidden love, adulterous passion, murder and remorse.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2020
• During the 2016 presidential primaries, Cruz denounced Trump as an adulterous liar.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The fall of the leader of Irish nationalism in the late 19th century, brought down by a scandal over his adulterous liaison with a married woman, was for him the most embittering event in recent Irish history.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• Lock’s poems capture the psychological condition of King David in Psalm 51: an adulterous sinner who is expelled from God’s favor and cries out for mercy, desperate to return to a state of grace.
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
• For reasons unknown, Jane helped Katherine arrange illicit meetings with the dashing courtier Thomas Culpeper—an adulterous entanglement that would lead to the executions of all three.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• Her search for excitement and escape leads to adulterous disasters and financial ruin.
  — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024