committing adultery
Betraying marriage vows
Committing adultery is having sexual relations with someone other than your spouse while married.
The phrase emphasizes the act as a violation—adultery being grounds for divorce in many legal systems and a serious transgression in most religious traditions: She discovered he had been committing adultery for years.
The gerund form often appears in legal and moral contexts where the ongoing or completed nature of the offense matters.
- having an affairExtramarital romantic involvement
- strayingDeparting from course
- wandering eyeTendency to ogle others
- trystSecret romantic meeting
- secret loverConcealed romantic partner
extramarital · other woman · philanderer · illicit · disloyalty · fornicating · cheating · cheating spouse · betrayal · infidelity · broken vows · deception · promiscuity · unfaithfulness · seduction · immorality · scarlet letter · commandments
committing adulteryfidelity
Loyalty or exactness
faithfulness · marital fidelity · monogamy · forsaking all others · celibacy
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