as in extracurricular
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse adulterine fiction often portrays the illicit lovers sympathetically

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Adjective
  • This has affected attendance, participation in extracurricular activities and communication within school communities.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Saline Area Senior Center is also open, and extracurricular activities are able to continue in the building.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The supernatural thriller sees a woman return from death as a vindictive spirit to torment her adulterous husband.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • But with a twist so big — Sarah being the killer of her adulterous husband Adam’s mistress, Kelly Summers, and the one who set him up for the murder while simultaneously defending him tooth and nail in court — where was Rose to go after that?
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Need someone to absorb your wife’s anger over that extramarital affair without inconveniencing your mistress?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Each of them offers money and position but nothing much in the way of pleasure, excitement, intellectual stimulation, or the prospect of anything other than a life of loveless, socially irreproachable tedium possibly brightened by the occasional extramarital affair.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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