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  • In an adulterous manner.

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  • adverb In an adulterous manner.

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  • adverb In a adulterous manner.

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  • adverb in an adulterous manner

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Examples

  • Sick...am not sure but adulterously horny...definitely!

    Get thee behind me! princesa 2008

  • He has a zero rating from NARAL – he voted against all family planning and all abortion rights for all women in all circumstances while he adulterously diddled hookers who were probably underage and possibly the same sex.

    Think Progress » ‘As Many as a Half a Dozen’ Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal 2006

  • From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the adulterously violated.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Saviour mentions her husbands, as well as him that then lived adulterously with her: as if he would intimate, that she lived dishonestly under her husbands, as well as with this man.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the adulterously violated.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The revolution harpies of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotic anarchy, which generates equivocally “all monstrous, all prodigious things, ” cuckoo-like, adulterously lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state.

    Paras. 20-39 1909

  • The enemy of our salvation especially strives to draw our heart and mind away from God when we are about to serve Him, and endeavours to adulterously attach our heart to something irrelevant.

    My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

  • She is truly worthy [10] of thee for a husband, who, adulterously {enclosed} in wood, deceived the fierce-looking bull, and bore in her womb an offspring of shape dissimilar {to herself}.

    The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

  • Nero murdered his mother in cool blood, simply because she was in the way of his plans for divorcing his innocent wife, and marrying adulterously another woman.

    Nero Makers of History Series Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Hell, or from that chaotic Anarchy which generates equivocally "all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like, adulterously lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the nest of every neighboring state.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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