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live in sin

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live in sin
to live with and have sex with someone to whom one is not married. (Sometimes serious and sometimes jocular.) Would you like to get married, or would you prefer that we live in sin for a few more years? Let's live in sin. There's no risk of divorce.
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live in sin  (humorous)
to live with someone that you are having a sexual relationship with but are not married to (usually in continuous tenses) Last I heard they'd moved in together and were living in sin.
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live in sin
to live with and have a sexual relationship with someone without being married They know that others their age view their relationship as living in sin.
Usage notes: often considered to be an old-fashioned phrase
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As the recession grinds on, the venerable Times reports the moral costs of economic slow down in the Hawkeye State, where homosexual couples, all 23 of them, were forced to live in sin for 72 more hours: Licenses for same-sex marriages were supposed to be issued in Iowa starting this Friday.
New York Times by The American Spectator
COLLEEN: Even though Danny and I are not moving in together until after the wedding, we decided it's OK for my books to live in sin.
My Books Can Live In Sin by Observer Staff / The New York Observer
Homosexuals and lesbians live in sin," he said, "and that should not be tolerated.
A long road to recognition by The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
 
 
 
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