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adulterous

/uh-duhl-ter-uhs/US // əˈdʌl tər əs //UK // (əˈdʌltərəs) //

奸诈的,淫乱的,奸淫,奸诈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or involved in adultery; illicit: an adulterous relationship.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • There are long books and ongoing debates about whether the personal lives of adulterous politicians should be held against them.

  • Her novel, a fictionalized take on her Left Bank intellectual circle, centers on an adulterous woman torn between two men.

  • An adulterous affair could be used as blackmail if it fell into the hands of a foreign intelligence service.

  • Many of the abandoned babies born back then were out of wedlock or through adulterous liaisons.

  • To further explicate the obvious: “Uncommon”—i.e., adulterous—“arrangements vary hugely.”

  • They have gone to the adulterous rendezvous celebrated in the scandalous verses of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

  • What else is the laying of such a stress on miracles but the case of 'a wicked and adulterous generation asking a sign'?

  • How long to convert that adulterous woman in the temple, who was caught in the very act of adultery?

  • By adulterous love we mean the love of adultery, which destroys conjugial love, as above, n. 423.

  • The delights of adulterous love are the pleasures of insanity; but the delights of conjugial love are the delights of wisdom.