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
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The Taliban has affirmed that stoning and public flogging would be used as a punishment for adulterers — especially women — according to an audio recording from Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader.
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 9 May 2024
The Vanderpump Rules star and Love Island USA host is returning to the Tony-winning revival of Chicago this summer, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal, to once again take on the role of murderous adulterer Roxie Hart in the iconic Kander and Ebb musical.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
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
Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 9 May 2024
The Vanderpump Rules star and Love Island USA host is returning to the Tony-winning revival of Chicago this summer, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal, to once again take on the role of murderous adulterer Roxie Hart in the iconic Kander and Ebb musical.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
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
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“Adulterer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adulterer. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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