illicitly

Example Sentences

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He is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Blanche said the agency would instead target only the terrorists and drug traffickers who illicitly used crypto, not the platforms that hosted them.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

According to separate legal complaints brought by Illinois and Missouri regulators, Gentile and Schneider illicitly collected more than $40 million from GPB’s operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

That may seem sketchy, but many Americans have imported real medications such as insulin illicitly from Canada and Mexico for years because the prices are so much lower outside the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2024

He was a born anatomist and so devoted to his studies that he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs, organs, and other parts from cadavers and took them home for leisurely dissection.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson