in-laws

as inrelative

as inkinsman
as inkinswoman
as inmenage
as infamily

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noun member of a family

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noun. kin, offspring; classification

family

noun. kin, offspring; classification

Word Origin & History

1894, "anyone of a relationship not natural," abstracted from father-in-law, etc.

The earliest recorded use of the phrase is in brother-in-law (13c.); the law is Canon Law, which defines degrees of relationship within which marriage is prohibited.

Example Sentences for in-laws

Kent and I had begun to feel like -in-laws, it had been so long since you had written.

These in-laws are always looking at you through a microscope.

It is true that John had to do his courting without assistance from his future "in-laws."

It was a glance in which her individual abhorrence of dirt combined with her racial disapproval of "in-laws."

The house would be spilling over with Bennetts, in-laws of Bennetts and grandchildren of Bennetts.

Their voices, the intonation, even the tilt of their chins, seemed to stamp these new "in-laws" as aristocrats of another race.

Mrs. Herbert said, charmingly, in Garden Oats, "Our in-laws are our strained relations."

But I saw more of her that evening than I did of Harry, who was hopelessly entangled with two or three 'in-laws.'

The departure of in-laws, even when they are quite nice in-laws, often has this effect on family parties.

But his "in-laws" knew a more profitable way of being revenged than that, and sold him to Seignior Joffee, a Christian black.

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families