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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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