Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who commits adultery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man guilty of adultery; a married man who has sexual commerce with any woman except his wife. See
adultery . Formerly also spelledadultrer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
- noun (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who commits
adultery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who commits adultery or fornication
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mac says: rpt: On to other hand, to include Gingrich in any category besides unrepentant serial adulterer is not right.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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On to other hand, to include Gingrich in any category besides unrepentant serial adulterer is not right.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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May be this idiot thinks that Republicans have right to pick and choose morality and character anytime they want while painting Democrats as adulterer is way to go.
Top South Carolina Republican calls for Sanford to resign 2009
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Once an adulterer is stoned, nobody is going to commit this crime at all.
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Now he's in trouble with his party for disclosing too much truth – confessions of a serial adulterer is a risky play in the Bible Belt – unless you doctor each sentence with some good 'ol God references.
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(The hussy her hubby was seeing gets hit by a beam and the adulterer is crushed to death in the palm of his betrothed.
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To you, a victim of adultery who decides to divorce the adulterer is the one 'tearing up the family'.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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Opposing adultery in principle is not the same as "believing the adulterer is a monster who ought to wear a red letter on his breast," says New York University sociologist Todd Gitlin.
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"I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked.
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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 V.C. Andrews® 1999
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