Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who commits adultery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man guilty of adultery; a married man who has sexual commerce with any woman except his wife. See adultery. Formerly also spelled adultrer.
Wiktionary
- n. One who commits adultery.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
- n. (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who commits adultery or fornication
Etymologies
- From the obsolete verb adulter + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now he's in trouble with his party for disclosing too much truth – confessions of a serial adulterer is a risky play in the Bible Belt – unless you doctor each sentence with some good 'ol God references.”
“May be this idiot thinks that Republicans have right to pick and choose morality and character anytime they want while painting Democrats as adulterer is way to go.”
“Once an adulterer is stoned, nobody is going to commit this crime at all.”
“Mac says: rpt: On to other hand, to include Gingrich in any category besides unrepentant serial adulterer is not right.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
“On to other hand, to include Gingrich in any category besides unrepentant serial adulterer is not right.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
“(The hussy her hubby was seeing gets hit by a beam and the adulterer is crushed to death in the palm of his betrothed.”
“To you, a victim of adultery who decides to divorce the adulterer is the one 'tearing up the family'.”
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“Opposing adultery in principle is not the same as "believing the adulterer is a monster who ought to wear a red letter on his breast," says New York University sociologist Todd Gitlin.”
“I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked.”
“After all, I thought, she had made me feel as if there was something polluted about me because I had been born a child out of an adulterous affair, even if the adulterer was her own mother.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adulterer’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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very good words must use in writing
ambivalent, allegory, spartan, callousness, clandestine, voluptuous, monologue, furtive, repudiate, fanatic, anodyne, reconnoitering and 4 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Pseudorandom encore
A couple of years ago on Wordie, I made the list Pseudorandom words. Let's see how the Wordnik random words compare: no panvocalics, more adverbs, more hyphenated words (or maybe I excluded them th...
appeasable, remigrant, trijunction, strawberry-mark, usurpatory, mannery, episcopally, encrown, boutade, yux, unpunishable, fortifiable and 88 more...
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