How to Use adulterer in a Sentence

adulterer

noun
  • But plenty of adulterers are content with their home lives.
    — The Economist, 2017-10-12
  • Everyone knew who the drunk was, the adulterer, the cheat.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 2018-05-14
  • Catherine may be an adulterer and a liar, but this dude dead-dropped you lewd photos of your own wife!
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2024-11-01
  • Our true challenge lies not with the drag queens without but rather with the adulterers and abusers within.
    — David French, National Review, 2019-06-19
  • The man started yelling and screaming at the couple for being adulterers.
    — Kenny Ocker, The Seattle Times, 2018-05-30
  • However, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother-in-law is a killer.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 2024-01-19
  • He has never been accused of being an adulterer and then paying off some of the women to keep them quiet.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2024-01-18
  • Would an inveterate adulterer, careful to keep his worlds apart, let his mistress have free rein in his other life?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-24
  • The adulterers aren’t written off as bad people; their sins are legible within the context of their lives.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 2025-01-31
  • Most notably, there was no privacy: Everyone knew who the drunk, the cheat, or the adulterer was.
    — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 2018-05-11
  • And, among sinners, does an adulterer merit the same punishment as a murderer?
    — National Geographic, 2016-05-13
  • But in Wednesday's interview, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother is a killer.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 2021-08-25
  • 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, 2017-10-23
  • Swapping the sexes of the adulterer and the wounded spouse both modernised the story and made the characters more relatable.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2021-09-06
  • Consider the case of an East Coast woman, whose husband was a serial adulterer for decades.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2021-06-12
  • The Port Charles community is thick as thieves (and murderers, adulterers, etc).
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2024-06-19
  • 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, 2019-03-19
  • 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, 2023-04-27
  • In the video, Rogers compares homosexuals to male prostitutes and adulterers.
    — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 2017-07-31
  • 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, 2022-04-29
  • The protagonist of this new novel, a middle-aged illustrator, is a conflicted adulterer.
    — New York Times, 2017-08-04
  • 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, 2017-06-27
  • 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, 2018-04-01
  • 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, 2013-02-14
  • Blunt was another serial adulterer, who had pursued a torrid affair with Mary’s mother in the 1870s.
    — Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 2018-06-15
  • 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, 2021-11-25
  • 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, 2022-07-04
  • 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, 2017-10-03
  • But to have such clueless, arrogant people blather on and on about their perceptions of Hollywood while defending a party of deplorables and bragging about a friendship with an adulterer and misogynic racist is simply a waste of newsprint.
    — latimes.com, 2017-05-24
  • 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, 2019-12-15

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