illegality

Roget category 964

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.5. Moral institutions

#964. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality

noun

lawlessness — illicitness — breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law — disobedience etc. 742 — unconformity etc. 83.
arbitrariness etc. adj. — antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.
mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law — coup d'etat [Fr.] — le droit du plus fort [Fr.] — argumentum baculinum [Lat.].
illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.
trover and conversion [Law] — smuggling, poaching — simony.
[person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man etc. 949.
v.. offend against the law — violate the law, infringe the law, break the law — set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute — ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle, run, poach.

adjective

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

adverb

illegally etc. adj. — with a high hand, in violation of law.

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