What is another word for bigamist?

Pronunciation: [bˈɪɡɐmˌɪst] (IPA)

A bigamist is someone who engages in the crime of bigamy, which involves marrying someone while already being legally married to someone else. Synonyms for bigamist include polygamist, polyandrist, and person of multiple marriages. Other terms that could be used to describe a bigamist include adulterer, deceiver, or scammer. In some cultures, polygamy is a common practice and therefore there are no words to describe this individual as it is not considered illegal or frowned upon. Regardless of the term used, bigamy is a serious crime that can result in legal consequences, emotional distress, and damage to personal relationships.

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Usage examples for Bigamist

Fortunately, he had returned to the house by the front hall and was in the hall inventing a story of burglars to the agitated Lady Sybil when they heard the shot which ended the wretched life of the bigamist.
"Jack O' Judgment"
Edgar Wallace
He's a bigamist, he is.
"King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays"
Floyd Dell
If I could only bring him to ruin as a bigamist-supposing him to be one-I should die happy.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy

Famous quotes with Bigamist

  • My father, William C. Boulding, was a working plumber in business for himself. At the back of the house was the yard, a corrugated iron shed full of pipes, wrenches, and blow torches, and other mysterious and rather frightening apparatus. He had two faithful employees, Billy Fox, who was moody and regarded as a little queer, and Billy Sankey, who was short and cheerful. They and my father always smelled strongly of some kind of grease. My father was a gentle man. I never I never heard his voice raised in anger. He had had a very hard childhood. His father died soon after he was born; his mother married again, a man known in the family legends as "Pa Hardacre," about whom endless stories were told. He was a bigamist. He drove my father out of the house at the age of twelve to earn his own living on the streets of Liverpool. He constantly mistreated my half-aunts, Ethel and Rosie. He died before I was born, but my mother's accounts of him sounded like something out of Dickens.
    Kenneth Boulding

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