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Illegally   /ɪlˈigəli/   Listen
Illegally

adverb
1.
In an illegal manner.  Synonyms: illicitly, lawlessly.  Antonym: lawfully.






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"Illegally" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Germans with having hoodwinked and jollied the Foreign Office and the Government into refraining for two years from using illegally their ...
— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

... of definitions, one may suppose. Loyal to the authorized government of his country, or to the rebels who would illegally ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

... The Fiddler as the prime offender, Th' incendiary vile, that is chief Author and engineer of mischief; That makes division between friends For profane and malignant ends.[4] He and that engine of vile noise On which illegally he plays,[5] Shall (dictum factum) both be brought To ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart

... taken by the Government, one-third by the finder, and one-third by the owner of the land. Damage to ancient monuments is punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Unauthorized excavation, even on land belonging to the excavator, and the purchasing of objects illegally excavated, are punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Application for leave to excavate must be made to the Chief Secretary for Government. All antiquities found in excavation belong to the Government; only duplicates, and objects not required by the Museum, are given ...
— How to Observe in Archaeology • Various

... the epithet, though it may be confessed to have been unsupported by any direct precedent. Isabella, the faithless wife of Edward II., had, indeed, been condemned by "the Lords" to the forfeiture of many of the estates which she had illegally appropriated; but it does not appear that her violation of her marriage vows, or even her probable share or acquiescence in her husband's murder, formed any portion of the grounds of her deprivation. And the Parliament which attainted Catherine Howard ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge


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