criminal conversation
noun
: adultery considered as a tort
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Howard sued his wife’s lover for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, according to court records. 
Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019 North Carolina is one of about a half-dozen states that allow lawsuits accusing a cheating spouse’s lover of alienation of affection and criminal conversation. Emery P. Dalesio, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019 North Carolina is one of about a half-dozen states that allow lawsuits accusing a cheating spouse’s lover of alienation of affection and criminal conversation. Emery P. Dalesio, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017 Word History
First Known Use
1716, in the meaning defined above
Legal Definition
criminal conversation
noun
criminal con·ver·sa·tion
: the tort of committing adultery with another's spouse compare alienation of affections
Note: This tort is no longer recognized in most jurisdictions.
criminal conversations
noun
as in love affairs
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- love affairs
- promiscuities
- romances
- disloyalties
- perfidies
- inconstancies
- amours
- affairs
- treacheries
- loves
- flings
- affaires
- passions
- flirtations
- misconducts
- adulteries
- infidelities
- liaisons
- free loves
- entanglements
- infatuations
- attachments
- intrigues
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- fidelities
- fealties
- loyalties
- allegiances
- devotions
- dedications
- constancies
- propter defectum san
- propter defectum sanguinis
- propter delictum
- propter delictum te
- propter delictum tenentis
- propter ho
- propter hoc
- propter honoris respectum
- propterygia
- propterygial
- propterygium
- proptoses
- proptosis
- propugnation
- propugnator
- propulsion
- propulsions
- propulsive
- propulsive coefficient
- propulsor
- propulsory
- propupa
- propupal
- propygidium
- propyl