Crossword-Solution: ADULTERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adultery | n. | The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. |
| Adultery | n. | Adulteration; corruption. |
| Adultery | n. | Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. |
| Adultery | n. | Faithlessness in religion. |
| Adultery | n. | The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. |
| Adultery | n. | The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. |
| Adultery | n. | Injury; degradation; ruin. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADULTERY (5)
Poor man! such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God; and this, too, at a time when he may be said to have been guilty of compelling his woman slave to commit the sin of adultery.
For if adultery, sacrilege, oppression, barbarous cruelty, and theft heaped upon theft, deserve hell, the great King of Carrick can no more escape hell for ever, than the imprudent Abbot escaped the fire for a season as follows.
Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery.
Only Our Lord would permit such an abominable crime of adultery without punishing her! If you knew what I know you would spit in her face.
Some of their names are the Lord Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord Anger, the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-eye, the Lord Blasphemy, and that horrible villain, the old and dangerous Lord Covetousness.
Quotes with ADULTERY (3)
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, …
The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).