live in sin
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live in sin (third-person singular simple present lives in sin, present participle living in sin, simple past and past participle lived in sin)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, dysphemistic) To cohabit as if husband and wife without being married.
- 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man, act 2:
- Ralph: Athene gone and got married?
Builder: No. It's—it's that she's gone and—and not got married. . . . I suppose you'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society.