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Unlawful

adjective

Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention. Synonyms: improper, unconventional. "Improper banking practices"

Contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law. "Unlawful money" , "Unlawful hunters" Antonym: lawful.

Not morally right or permissible.

Having no legally established claim. Synonym: wrongful.

Contrary to or forbidden by law. Synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed. "Illicit trade" , "An outlaw strike" , "Unlawful measures"

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"Unlawful" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dunbar, of Baldoon; and Lady Stair was a woman of formidable character, set upon having her own way and accustomed to prevail. As soon as she heard of Janet's private engagement to Lord Rutherford she declared the vow to be undutiful and unlawful and she commanded that it should be broken. Lord Rutherford, a man of energy and of spirit, thereupon insisted that he would take his dismissal only from the lips of Miss Dalrymple herself, and he demanded ...

— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter

... up their sense of truth,—to persist in rejecting the unchristian falsehoods which they are called upon to worship; sure that after all that can be said, that system will remain false to the end; and their Christian faith, if they do not faithlessly attempt to strengthen it by unlawful means, will stand no ...

— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold

... and timidly and stealthily taking out some volume whose title attracted me, snatch hastily a few pages and hasten on, half fearful of being called on to purchase, half ashamed of a desire which I fancied every one else considered as unlawful as my mother did. Sometimes I was lucky enough to find the same volume several days running, and to take up the subject where I had left it off; and thus I contrived to hurry through a great deal of "Childe Harold," ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... to win a calf and fit it for unlawful branding. Sometimes the calf is caught and staked out in some secluded spot where it is not liable to be found and away from its mother until it is nearly starved when it is branded by the thief and turned loose; or, the calf's tongue is split so that it cannot suck and by the time that the ...

— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk

... justify the instant cutting-down of the offender, a personal account of the matter must be given to the administrator; that lesser feudatories must honestly discharge the duties of their position and refrain from giving unlawful or arbitrary orders (to the people of their fiefs); that they must take care not to impair the resources or well-being of the province or district in which they are; that roads, relays of post-horses, boats, ferries, and bridges must be carefully ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

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