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punishable

adj. liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses"

penal, punishable

adj. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"

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at fault

adj. deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"

blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable

adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

bloodguilty

adj. guilty of murder or bloodshed

chargeable, indictable

adj. liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense"

condemned, convicted

adj. pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"

conscience-smitten

adj. affected by conscience

criminal

adj. guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"

delinquent

adj. guilty of a misdeed; "delinquent minors"

finable, fineable

adj. liable to a fine

guilt-ridden

adj. feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; "so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"

amerciable

adj. of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled

adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

criminal, felonious

adj. involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"

dirty, ill-gotten

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

embezzled, misappropriated

adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"

extrajudicial

adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted; "an extrajudicial penalty"

extralegal, nonlegal

adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"

hot

adj. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"

illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

misbranded, mislabeled

adj. branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"

under-the-counter, under the counter

adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly

unratified

adj. lacking legal authority; "the unratified Equal Right Amendment"

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