to live in sin
8
8.4
- idiom
- NSFW
:
vivir en pecado
- You just want to live in sin, don't you?
My girlfriend's mom was furious at me because she wanted her son to stop living in sin and I ruined it.
- My girlfriend's mom was furious at me because she wanted her son to stop living in sin and I ruined it.
Examples
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Although they loved each other dearly, their families disapproved of their decision to live in sin.
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And the longer we lived in sin, the worse things got for her.
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You realize you were living in sin during all that time?
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And therefore, I would be living in sin.
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No, just living in sin.
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We're not living in sin.
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You were living in sin with him, do you realize that?
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I would be happy to live in sin with you, Della.
Fiction book (1995) -
It would be wrong for you two to be living in sin under our roof.
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You live in sin.
Synonyms
230
2.7
To share a home with a romantic partner without being married
33
8.2
To live together as a couple without being married
3
6.3
To live together as a couple and have sex without being married
Antonyms
How Disapproving
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'live' + 'in' + 'sin', so a learner can infer a general idea of 'living within wrongdoing' from the constituents; this gives a negative, moralized sense. However, the specific conventional meaning—cohabiting and having a sexual relationship without being married—is culturally loaded and not fully predictable from the parts alone, so prior exposure or cultural knowledge is usually needed.
Etymology
Live in sin comes from old church ideas that called sex outside marriage a 'sin'. When people live together without marriage, leaders said they were living 'in' that sin, so today the phrase means 'to live together as a couple without being married'.