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Adulterous

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

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Illicit 84% connected

Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Illicit 84% connected

Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

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Unfaithful 84% connected

Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

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Unfaithful 84% connected

Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

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Adultery 74% connected

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual inter…

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Adultery 74% connected

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual inter…

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Cheating 92% connected

of Cheat

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Adulter verb · 78% connection

To commit adultery; to pollute.

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Adulterate verb · 78% connection

To defile by adultery.

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Adulterer noun · 78% connection

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

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Adulteress noun · 78% connection

A woman who commits adultery.

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Adulteries pl. · 78% connection

of Adultery

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Adulterize verb · 78% connection

To commit adultery.

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Advowtry noun · 78% connection

Adultery.

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Amour noun · 78% connection

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

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Answer noun · 78% connection

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘…

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Avoutrie noun · 78% connection

Adultery.

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Avowtry verb · 78% connection

Adultery. See Advoutry.

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Bawdry noun · 78% connection

Illicit intercourse; fornication.

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Bribery noun · 78% connection

the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

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Cannabis noun · 78% connection

the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for e…

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Co-respondent noun · 78% connection

the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding

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Condonation noun · 78% connection

Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adulter…

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Continent adjective · 78% connection

Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; c…

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