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View definitions for unlawfully

unlawfully

adverb as in illegally

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And what do you allege that Mr. Davis did unlawfully in this one?

With the help of the police and the judiciary, dissidents are unlawfully clapped into jails on trumped-up charges.

Jailed for six months in 2007 after admitting unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages.

Under current federal law, illegal aliens are subject to arrest, detention, and deportation for being here unlawfully.

In one of the cases a married woman was properly indicted for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors.

The law punishes false imprisonment as a crime; the person unlawfully imprisoned also has a civil action for damages.

Yet, after all his boasting and threats, the value of the powder thus unlawfully seized was restored to the colony.

He finished by giving him a bag containing one hundred and thirty francs, the amount of the sum unlawfully dissipated.

He was charged with having permitted by his carelessness the Peruvian uprising and having unlawfully taken the life of Almagro.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unlawfully, such as: illicitly, unjustifiably, unjustly, wrongly, and illegitimately.

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

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