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Another word for unlawful

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unlawful

modif.

forbidden, illicit, outlawed, criminal; see illegal.

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Another word for unlawful

adjective

Prohibited by law:
illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, outlawed, wrongful. See crimes, law
Of, involving, or being a crime:
criminal, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, wrongful. See crimes
Contrary to accepted, especially moral conventions:
illicit. See right
Born to parents who are not married to each other:
baseborn, bastard, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural, spurious. See kin, law

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Confirmed previous enactments against unlawful games.
How long shall they wield unlawful power?
Right, and (with at least a shadow of legal right) he proclaimed unlawful the assembly of Aberdeen (1605).
As of whatsoever fishes increasing in the rivers"; also "to reform nets too straight and other unlawful engines and instruments whatsoever for the catching of fishes"; also to take cognizance "of the wreck of the sea.
A vast intended meeting was proclaimed unlawful, and in October 1843 O'Connell was arrested and held to bail, with ten or twelve of his principal followers.

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