Adulterous and Wrong

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Adulterous adjective - Relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse.

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Wrong and adulterous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead an adjective "Adulterous".

Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Adulterous and wrong are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adulterous" instead an adjective "Wrong".

However, it turns out, Merlin picked the wrong knight, and it was actually Lancelot's son Galahad who would have been the perfect knight, with the result that Lancelot only makes things worse with his adulterous relationship with Guinevere. Oops.

Source: Series / Merlin (1998)
Start of Darkness: Growing up, Yuuichi watched his mother struggle with mood swings and suicidal depression, not helped by her abusive, adulterous husband or doctors insisting nothing was wrong with her.

Source: Video Game / Kinder
The Trope Namer example is deconstructed in Criminal: The Last of the Innocent, where after years of unhappy marriage to the shallow, adulterous and manipulative "Veronica" Expy, the "Archie" stand-in realizes he made the wrong choice and really should have stayed with the "Betty" Expy.

Source: Betty And Veronica / Comic Books

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