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Synonyms for affair:


noun matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity

case
employment
event
incident
interest
proceeding
project
question
subject
task
thing
topic
transaction
assignment
avocation
calling
circumstance
concern
duty
episode
hap
happening
job
mission
obligation
occupation
occurrence
profession
province
pursuit
realm
responsibility
undertaking

noun illicit sexual relationship

liaison
relationship
affaire
amour
fling
intimacy
intrigue
love
rendezvous
romance
carrying-on
goings-on
hanky-panky
two-timing

noun party or celebration

do
entertainment
function
gathering
reception
shindig
soiree

Examples of uses:

I think it's because he's having an affair. He wouldn't have an affair. He loves you.
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Means there's either a neurological component, or he's having an affair. No affair.
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Bobby, you had an affair with this woman! An affair.
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A love affair's a love affair. Details don't matter. What if they complain?
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But I don't see how this conversation can end well for me. Either your wife is having an affair, or she's not having an affair, and you have come here because you rightly think I should fire him.
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Chester, who knew Jessica had had an affair, but didn't know who she had her affair with, found out her affair had been with Peter.
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You just agreed to an affair, a cheap, illicit affair with the woman you love?
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Annalise said that she found out about sam and lila's affair But she told me she knew about the affair three months ago.
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Either the husband found out about the affair and he arranged the hit on Galen; or Galen threatened to expose the affair, and Lydia set up the hit.
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Well, if we're gonna have an affair, we've got to be discreet. affair?
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Antonyms for affair:

fun