adulterously r in an adulterous manner he behaved adulterously Usage(s) When Ingrid Bergman became adulterously pregnant by Roberto Rossillini in 1949, she was all but stoned out of the country. In a moment of passion (passion is always momentary in Compton-Burnett), Simon makes it a calamity by adulterously siring a son with Rhoda. There's the love story, of course, in which opposites warily circle, passionately and adulterously engage, and ruefully part.