adultery:

Sexual intercourse between two people where one or both of those involved are married to someone else. In his humorous dictionary, The Penthouse Sexicon (1968), Frederic Mullally defines:

-- Adult: ' Person who is supposed to know what he or she is doing .'

-- Adulterer: ' Person who does it .'

-- Adultery: ' It .'
Synonyms: extra-marital sex ; illicit-affair ; infidelity ; marital infidelity .
See also: affair .

Quotes:

(1) Robbie Ross (George Segal) and his ex-wife Natasha O'Brien (Jacqueline Bisset) in Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978):
-- Robbie: ' You don't call a roll-in-the-hay with your secretary adultery .'
-- Natasha: ' What would you call it? Shorthand? '

(2)Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) and Susan Lowenstein (Barbra Streisand) in The Prince of Tides (1991):
-- Tom: ' Lowenstein, I think I like adultery .'
-- Susan: ' That's why they made it a sin .'

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