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See definition of in-laws on Dictionary.com
  • as infamily
  • as inkinsman
  • as inkinswoman
  • as inmenage
  • as inrelative

synonyms for in-laws

  • clan
  • folk
  • group
  • house
  • household
  • people
  • tribe
  • ancestors
  • ancestry
  • birth
  • blood
  • brood
  • children
  • class
  • descendants
  • descent
  • dynasty
  • extraction
  • forebears
  • genealogy
  • generations
  • genre
  • inheritance
  • issue
  • kind
  • kindred
  • line
  • lineage
  • network
  • parentage
  • pedigree
  • progenitors
  • progeny
  • race
  • relations
  • relationship
  • relatives
  • siblings
  • strain
  • subdivision
  • system
  • heirs and assigns
  • kith and kin
  • menage
  • ménage
On this page you'll find 182 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in-laws, such as: clan, folk, group, house, household, and people.

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        How to use in-laws in a sentence

        Lady Byron, on the other hand, with very imperfect understanding of her sister-in-laws character, was entirely at her mercy.
        BYRONRICHARD EDGCUMBE
        His father-in-laws aggressively noisy manner of imbibing soup had long been a thorn in the flesh to Maurice.
        PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
        Thus it was, that the blind and loathsome worm passed, all too late, from her brother-in-laws domestic life.
        THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
        In his altercations with Southey she was, of course, altogether on her brother-in-laws side.
        THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. I (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
        But I saw more of her that evening than I did of Harry, who was hopelessly entangled with two or three 'in-laws.'
        THE SECRET BATTLEA. P. HERBERT
        She had a large apartment of her own in her mother-in-laws house, her bedroom being approached through her sitting-room.
        THE STORY OF MY LIFE, VOLUMES 4-6AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE
        The departure of in-laws, even when they are quite nice in-laws, often has this effect on family parties.
        DANGEROUS AGESROSE MACAULAY
        We visited and learned a lot about things here and there and then he took us to lunch at his mother-in-laws house.
        LETTERS FROM CHINA AND JAPANJOHN DEWEY
        He was carried down the steps and taken in the bridal carriage to his father-in-laws house.
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        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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