illicitness
Example Sentences
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Diversions visually suppressed shiftlessness or illicitness, or anything a bouncer had been instructed to keep out of a club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
But evoking illicitness is important to their identity—it gives them the frisson of speaking the forbidden, a rhetorical strategy that Daum also deploys.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
The risks and illicitness of it all is partly what attracts the otherwise buttoned-down Jean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Our exchange reeked of geopolitical illicitness; we were mere kilometres from the Bridge of Spies, where, during the Cold War, prisoners were traded.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2016
Illegality -- N. lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
