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extramarital

[ ek-struh-mar-i-tl ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to sexual relations with someone other than one's spouse:

    extramarital affairs.



extramarital

/ ˌɛٰəˈæɪə /

adjective

  1. (esp of sexual relations) occurring outside marriage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of extramarital1

First recorded in 1925–30; extra- + marital
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Eckhart said Fox News was aware that Henry’s behavior with women was problematic because he was suspended for four months in 2016 for having an extramarital affair with a Las Vegas stripper.

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Obsessed with destroying King’s reputation, Hoover ordered the wiretapping of King’s home and hotel rooms, collecting reels of tape documenting the leader’s extramarital affairs.

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She was sitting in the front row for the 2010 news conference in which he admitted to multiple extramarital affairs.

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The most infamous example was the FBI’s attempt to blackmail civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by threatening to expose his extramarital affairs.

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He had been married and at the same time in an extramarital relationship with a producer at Fox News that produced a daughter.

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