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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"

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

... been defeated, discredited, and disgraced but they had not been discouraged. In their first question they failed utterly to bring Jesus into any unlawful opposition to the religious courts. They now attempted by a new question to draw from him an answer which either would make him unpopular with the people or would bring him under the condemnation of the civil ruler. They asked him ...

— The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition • Charles R. Erdman

... get another cigar. The night was getting on to what I may call its deepest hour, the hour most favourable to evil purposes of men's hate, despair or greed—to whatever can whisper into their ears the unlawful counsels of protest against things that are; the hour of ill- omened silence and chill and stagnation, the hour when the criminal plies his trade and the victim of sleeplessness reaches the lowest depth of ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... the Mayor and the Church will unite two citizens of Paris. Madame de la Chanterie's fund, founded to restore poor households to their religious and legal status, hunts up such couples, and with all the more success because it helps them in their poverty before attacking their unlawful union. ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... he said austerely—"Ye cannot cause the dead to feel, . . would that it were possible! Then might the glorious and god like thirst of vengeance in our great High Priestess be somewhat more appeased in this matter. For the unlawful communion of love between a vestal virgin and an anointed priest cannot be too utterly abhorred and condemned,—and these twain, who thus did foully violate their vows, have perished far too easily. The sanctity of the ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... he repeated. "He walked with God; and he is not, for God took him. Ay, took him away from the evil to come, where he should vex his righteous soul no more by unlawful deeds—where the alloyed gold of worldly greatness, which men would needs braid over the pure ermine of his life, should soil and crush ...

— The Well in the Desert - An Old Legend of the House of Arundel • Emily Sarah Holt

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