Synonyms for mother-in-law
moth·er-in-law

Princeton's WordNet

1. mother-in-lawnoun

   the mother of your spouse

Matched Categories

1. • In-law
   • Mother

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1. List of paraphrases for "mother-in-law":

   stepmother, stepmom

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1. Domingo Infante:

   Inside the home, police found two legs of ham, along with the stolen cash and TV. The delectable meats were taken to the local police station as investigators tried to find the other missing legs, which are believed to be in the possession of the suspect's accomplices. Each leg is worth around $ 132. I’ve never imagined my wife and mother-in-law would turn out to be the detectives who solved this.

2. H. L. Mencken:

   Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

3. Esther Drachman:

   My mother-in-law is bedridden, so we took her out and brought her to our house, we just felt like we couldn’t get her out in five minutes.

4. Scott Fisher:

   Eventually, the way it worked, I found the uncle of Theresa through his daughter-in-law by leaving a phone message at the home of her ex-mother-in-law.

5. Ernest Coquelin:

   I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.