"live in sin" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-live in sin.ogg [Australia] Forms: lives in sin [present, singular, third-person], living in sin [participle, present], lived in sin [participle, past], lived in sin [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live in sin (third-person singular simple present lives in sin, present participle living in sin, simple past and past participle lived in sin)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic, dysphemistic) To cohabit as if husband and wife without being married. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: live over the brush, play house Related terms: common-law marriage
    Sense id: en-live_in_sin-en-verb-xqGGoJWd Categories (other): English dysphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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