Sample sentences for INFIDELITY

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unfaithfulness or disloyalty — especially from violating marriage vows through sexual relations with someone other than a spouse

The candidate was accused of marital infidelity.

I forgive his infidelity which I have reason to believe he also regrets...
Alexandre Dumas -- Ten Years Later
Cavendish believed that the slip of paper to which her mother-in-law clung so tenaciously was a written proof of her own husband's infidelity.
Agatha Christie -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine -- The Age of Reason
She felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment of passion is betrayed into an act of infidelity...
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
But things like jealousy, rage, and infidelity—they don't disappear.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Even in his infidelities he behaved as one could count on his behaving and never gave rise to scandal.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
I pass my life in crummy, totally pointless infidelities ....
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Unchastity and infidelity were as confused to him as to the Middle Ages, his only moral teacher.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
He hated himself for his infidelity to his Virgin, to his people.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Infidelity is a dangerous business.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
She loved him and he loved her, and this unwanted child now seemed to her a proof of infidelity to that love.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Unbelievers are to be met with in America, but, to say the truth, there is no public organ of infidelity.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
If he accuses one of his wives of witchcraft or infidelity, she can be killed.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
Megamoney, lurid sex, drugs, betrayal, infidelity, assassination, and an illegitimate child.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
How aware Abigail may have been of the husband's frequent infidelities is not known.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Of course, Tia Fidelina, our uncle's wife, who is sweet and dedicated to La Virgen, "knows nothing" about Tio Orlando's infidelities.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
He hadn't known about the demise of his previous relationship, however, and Sarah's infidelity had intrigued him.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
Idris says, irked that Timur has burdened him again with knowledge of his misconduct, his infidelity, his grotesque frat-boy antics.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
He spoke much of Cunegonde, and Candide told him that he should ask forgiveness of that beautiful one for his infidelity when he should see her in Venice.
Voltaire -- Candide

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