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unlawful
adjective
1 unlawful
2 unlawful
Contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law.
3 unlawful
Not morally right or permissible.
4 unlawful
Having no legally established claim.
synonym: wrongful.
5 unlawful
Contrary to or forbidden by law:
— Unlawful measures.
synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed.
Roget 925:
undue;
unlawful
etc.
(illegal)
964;
unconstitutional;
illicit;
unauthorized,
unwarranted,
disallowed,
unallowed†,
unsanctioned,
unjustified;
unentitled†,
disentitled,
unqualified,
disqualified;
unprivileged,
unchartered.
illegitimate,
bastard,
spurious,
supposititious,
false;
usurped.
tortious [Law].
undeserved,
unmerited,
unearned;
unfulfilled.
forfeited,
disfranchised.
improper;
unmeet,
unfit,
unbefitting,
unseemly;
unbecoming,
misbecoming†;
seemless†;
contra bonos mores [Lat.];
not the thing,
out of the question,
not to be thought of;
preposterous,
pretentious,
would-be.
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Roget 964:
illegal
[contrary to law],
unlawful,
illegitimate;
not allowed,
prohibited
etc.
761;
illicit,
contraband;
actionable.
unwarranted,
unwarrantable;
unauthorized;
informal,
unofficial;
injudicial†,
extrajudicial.
lawless,
arbitrary;
despotic,
despotical†;
corrupt,
summary,
irresponsible;
unanswerable,
unaccountable.
[of invalid or expired law]
expired,
invalid;
unchartered,
unconstitutional;
null and void;
a dead letter.
[in absence of law]
lawless,
unregulated
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Polish: bezprawny
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, exceptionable, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, intolerable, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nefarious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, objectionable, off limits, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, punishable, ruled out, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, taboo, tabooed, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under the ban, under the table, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlicensed, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful ... show more.
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