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
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Later on, the stay-at-home parent might start to be in charge of bigger picture tasks like taking kids to extracurricular activities, touring college campuses, and planning birthday parties.—
Jana Pollack,
Parents,
27 Feb. 2026 -
This requires thoughtful planning around transportation services and extracurricular activities.—
Alec Johnson,
jsonline.com,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But the gamesmanship, foreshadowing the adulterous antics of Harold Pinter’s plays, escalates perilously.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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The unapologetically lurid tale of two families locked in an ever-complex cat’s cradle of class resentments and adulterous power plays also swarms with queen bees and jaw-droppingly muscular men that feel straight out of the Real Housewives playbook.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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He was caught using a crude slur for Jews, and carrying on an extramarital affair that produced an out-of-wedlock child.—
Mark Whitaker,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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The latest Epstein documents include a series of emails that Epstein sent to himself in 2013, appearing to suggest that Gates was having an extramarital affair and seeking illicit drugs.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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