adjective
- Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention.
- usage: "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"
- synonyms: improper, unconventional
- Contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law.
- usage: "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters"
- Not morally right or permissible.
- usage: "unlawful love"
- Having no legally established claim.
- usage: "the wrongful heir to the throne"
- synonyms: wrongful
- Contrary to or forbidden by law.
- usage: "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed
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