unlawful

Speech parts

1. unlawful - Adjective

2. unlawful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not lawful; contrary to law.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

illegitimate improper illicit wrongful criminal illegal banned prohibited forbidden punishable outlaw contraband lawless felonious outlawed
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Antonyms

lawful cathedral may just due right
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Phrases with the word

in an unlawful manner unlawful act unlawful sexual intercourse unlawful killing unlawful arrest unlawful non-citizen

Examples

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. Orrin Hatch

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure-its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. Charlotte Brontë

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. John Locke

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth. Ali

Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions. So Tip's guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess. L. Frank Baum

Need teaches things unlawful. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

unlavishly unlaw unlawed unlawful act unlawful action unlawful activity