adulterer

noun

adul·​ter·​er ə-ˈdəl-tər-ər 

: a person who commits adultery

especially : a man who commits adultery

Examples of adulterer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother-in-law is a killer. —Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024

But Picasso, a notorious adulterer known for his abusive behavior toward women, quickly began mistreating her. —Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023

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, 27 Apr. 2023

His father, a member of the now-defunct Liberal Party, was anti-Europe but not aligned with the political right’s position on the issue, was prudish and chivalrous around women yet also a serial adulterer. —Hugh Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023

The regime has barred women and girls from universities and some schools and the Taliban has invalidated thousands of divorces, forcing some women who remarried and are now considered adulterers to go on the run, The Washington Post reported this month. —Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023

Inevitably, there is a suicide under a train, though it is motivated by something other than an adulterer’s despair—another sign, perhaps, of the author’s own ambitions, a desire to free herself from literary antecedents and to find an autonomous world of plot and theme. —Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023

The floor is being run by Anika de Beer (Lucy Taylor), who is juggling blackmailing a rich adulterer into spending massive amounts of cash while also dealing with a casino official who wants to know why one of the whales coming in for a private game is using a fake name. —Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023

Tennyson, writing during the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, portrayed Arthur as a figure of moral stability and certainty, whereas Guinevere, in the light of Victorian morality, was an adulterer whose transgressions contributed to the general sickness of society. —Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022

Word History

Etymology

alteration (conformed to Latin adulter) of Middle English advowtrer, avowtrer, advouterer, avouterer, from avouter, avowtier "adulterer" (borrowed from Anglo-French avuiltre, avouter, going back to Latin adulter, noun derivative of adulterāre "to commit adultery with, pollute, adulterate entry 1") + -er -er entry 2

First Known Use

circa 1506, in the meaning defined above