How to Use adulterer in a Sentence

adulterer

noun
  • Our true challenge lies not with the drag queens without but rather with the adulterers and abusers within.
    David French, National Review, 19 June 2019
  • The man started yelling and screaming at the couple for being adulterers.
    Kenny Ocker, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2018
  • However, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother-in-law is a killer.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • 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, 18 Jan. 2024
  • 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, 24 July 2024
  • The adulterers aren’t written off as bad people; their sins are legible within the context of their lives.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
  • And, among sinners, does an adulterer merit the same punishment as a murderer?
    National Geographic, 13 May 2016
  • But in Wednesday's interview, Janey says that being an adulterer does not mean that her brother is a killer.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • 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, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Consider the case of an East Coast woman, whose husband was a serial adulterer for decades.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • The Port Charles community is thick as thieves (and murderers, adulterers, etc).
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 19 June 2024
  • Odysseus is a king, a thief, a warrior, a leader who loses his men, an absentee father, an adulterer, and a devoted husband yearning for home.
    Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
  • 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
  • In the video, Rogers compares homosexuals to male prostitutes and adulterers.
    Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 31 July 2017
  • 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, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The protagonist of this new novel, a middle-aged illustrator, is a conflicted adulterer.
    New York Times, 4 Aug. 2017
  • 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, 14 Feb. 2013
  • Blunt was another serial adulterer, who had pursued a torrid affair with Mary’s mother in the 1870s.
    Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • So on April 25th the government banned flogging as a punishment, to the relief of blasphemers, adulterers and liberals.
    The Economist, 2 May 2020
  • Shariah punishments like stoning adulterers and amputations for thieves, Al-Azhar says, are not applicable in the current age.
    Hamza Hendawi, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • 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, 25 Nov. 2021
  • In One of the Boys, Rogers compares homosexuality to male prostitutes and adulterers.
    Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 6 July 2017
  • 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, 4 July 2022
  • The fact that many Christians supported him may speak to a fall away from orthodox teaching and toward moral relativism and secular standards that allow a cheat, an adulterer, and a liar to be judged to be the better choice among candidates.
    Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
  • 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, 3 Oct. 2017
  • 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, 24 May 2017
  • 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, 15 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • In 17th-century Massachusetts, Hester Prynne struggles to live in society after being forced to wear the letter A, for adulterer, after giving birth to a child out of wedlock.
    Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Psalm 23, attributed to King David — a repentant adulterer and murderer — invokes pastoral imagery to depict the Lord as a gentle, loving shepherd and the speaker as a helpless, fearful sheep in need of guidance.
    Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018

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