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Synonyms for unlawful

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for unlawful

of, involving, or being a crime

contrary to accepted, especially moral conventions

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born to parents who are not married to each other

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Synonyms for unlawful

not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention

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contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law

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not morally right or permissible

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having no legally established claim

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contrary to or forbidden by law

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And, for your husband's sake, Annabella, and even for your own, I wish - I earnestly advise and entreat you to break off this unlawful connection at once, and return to your duty while you may, before the dreadful consequences - '
"And I, by agreeing to an unlawful divorce, shall be to blame for her ruin." He had thought it all over hundreds of times, and was convinced that a divorce was not at all simple, as Stepan Arkadyevitch had said, but was utterly impossible.
is his determined and merciless enemy, and that he has already made an unlawful use of his position in the Society for the sake of private vengeance.
But with the true professional hatred to a successful practitioner of their art, they insinuated that, since the medicine was beyond their own knowledge, it must necessarily have been compounded from an unlawful and magical pharmacopeia; since they themselves, though no conjurors, fully understood every branch of their art, so far as it might be exercised with the good faith of a Christian.
All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.
This promise given, Oedipus put forth Blind hands and laid them on his children, saying, "O children, prove your true nobility And hence depart nor seek to witness sights Unlawful or to hear unlawful words.
If a policeman catches him in an unlawful act and proceeds to arrest him, the offender proclaims that he is a student, and perhaps shows his matriculation card, whereupon the officer asks for his address, then goes his way, and reports the matter at headquarters.
21 by Chester police and charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine, resisting a peace officer and violating the motorcycle classification.
THE House of Representatives will on resumption from its two-month annual recess commence debate on a bill which seeks to impose stiffer penalties on unlawful possession of firearms in the country.
Interior Ministry says Atambayev's direct involvement into unlawful freeing of crime boss Batukayev established AKIPRESS.COM - The ongoing investigation into unlawful release of crime boss Aziz Batukayev from prison has established a direct involvement of Almazbek Atambayev into freeing, the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan said.
Summary: New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): The Opposition has decided to demand in the Rajya Sabha that seven out of 16 bills, including the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, Triple Talaq Bill and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Bill, be sent to Joint Select Committee.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday awarded N500,000 against the State Security Service (SSS) in favour of Ahmadu Mohmmad over his unlawful arrest and prolonged detention.
They were arrested for this gross unlawful activity and are facing the law while behind the bars.
President Nicos Anastasiades called for restrictive measures to be taken against all those involved in Turkey`s unlawful actions in Cyprus' EEZ.