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The phrase "illicit affairs" is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to secret or forbidden romantic relationships. Example: The newspaper reported on the politician's numerous illicit affairs, causing a scandal in the community.
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He was also accused of having multiple illicit affairs in violation of party rules.
society from the heights of moneyed privilege to caves of smuggled drugs and the illicit affairs of mismatched mates.
It is also, in the author's account, a place where women go to meet their lovers and conduct illicit affairs.
In an interview with The Independent, he claimed to have heard of "around 20 more" illicit affairs at the company, which he is tempted to publish.
Although the subject matter is the same (illicit affairs among the Viennese bourgeoisie), the atmosphere of engaging superficiality is abandoned for narratives of extreme interiority.
Here we were, screaming with laughter, crying and hugging each other, women who had married, divorced, had illicit affairs, had kids.
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She is having an illicit affair.
It was like an illicit affair - hers, yet not hers.
Nor for anyone carrying out an illicit affair.
Nonetheless, they throw all good sense to the winds and begin a passionate illicit affair.
PARIS — A grand hotel, an illicit affair, a hasty departure of a woman with a coat lapped over lacy lingerie.
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