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unlawful

• (s) not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
  • an unconventional marriage
  • improper banking practices
  improper, unconventional,
• (a) contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law
  • unlawful measures
  • unlawful money
  • unlawful hunters
• (s) not morally right or permissible
  • unlawful love
• (s) having no legally established claim
  • the wrongful heir to the throne
  wrongful,
• (s) contrary to or forbidden by law
  • an illegitimate seizure of power
  • illicit trade
  • an outlaw strike
  • unlawful measures
  illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, illicit,

Synonyms

improper unconventional wrongful illegitimate outlaw outlawed illicit

Antonyms

lawful

See also

corrupt crooked illegal

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