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Another word for unlawful

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Adjective

  1. Prohibited by law

    See also:

    law

    crimes

  2. Of, involving, or being a crime

    See also:

    crimes

  3. Contrary to accepted, especially moral conventions

    See also:

    right

  4. Born to parents who are not married to each other

    See also:

    law

    kin

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Another word for unlawful

Modifier
  1. See also:

    illegal

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Sentence Examples

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

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