adulterers

Noun

adulterer (plural adulterers)

1. (broadly, strictly) A spouse who has sex with a non-spouse.
   • Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.2009, Garner's Modern American Usage, page 22

   Synonyms:

   cheater, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, lecher, lewdster

2. (broadly) Someone who cheats on their spouse or monogamous significant other.
   • Ashley Madison, so-called for the two most popular girls names, billed itself as the premier destination for adulterers – no judgment, no risks, no strings attached other than the payments required to secure enough “credits” to talk to other users.2024 May 14, Adrian Horton, “Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison: ‘People literally lost their lives’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   cheater, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, lecher, lewdster

3. (broadly) A male adulterer specifically.
   • I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.2005, The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness, page 140

   Synonyms:

   cheater, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, lecher, lewdster