inlaw
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of inlaw
before 1000; Middle English inlawen, Old English inlagian. See in- 1, law 1
Example Sentences
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Unlike the audience, she is consumed with curiosity and foreboding about her missing inlaw.
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He is, in fact, the maverick inlaw, an ambitious man whose efforts to go his own way have created a longstanding coolness between himself and some of the Kennedy family members.
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The Maharaja of Kapurthala's daughter inlaw, Princess Brinda, preparing to return home, looked back on the winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter.
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Presently, Smith is undertaking an important assignment from his White House inlaw.
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Not I. Let him inlaw me again first.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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