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lawfully

adverb as in rightly

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“Better to put those voters on notice now while they still have at least some time to adjust their plans and cast their votes in an unquestionably lawful way.”

This is often done at night from boats, but also from jetties and breakwalls where lawful.

In another development last year, Ireland’s DPC opened an investigation into Google’s online Ad Exchange — looking into the lawful basis for its processing of personal data.

Or, Google says, publishers can use the “legitimate interest” lawful basis for processing personal data under the GDPR.

From Digiday

Lawful but could not have been avoided, not lawful but awful.

From Ozy

The DEA will continue to work with state officials so the state can lawfully obtain the seeds.

But these groups, however passionately they believed in their cause, never imagined themselves to be acting lawfully.

Dreamers, he says, “are considered to be lawfully present despite lacking valid immigration status.”

Thanks to the Obama directive, Dreamers soon will be lawfully present.

So they panicked, threatened, and at times practically assaulted me—all for playing lawfully.

Besides, each one who lawfully vows to God, in vowing discharges a function of a loyal subject of God's government.

The latter are countenanced by no class of vows lawfully made, either in Old Testament times or in a later period.

Relief from the poor rates can only lawfully be given in cases where persons are destitute of the means of support.

They refused to make one who had been lawfully apprenticed to the trade in Shrewsbury free of their company.

You shall have this girl; but lawfully, openly, with the sanction of Heaven and your parents.

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On this page you'll find 112 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lawfully, such as: accurately, correctly, decently, duly, equally, and equitably.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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