unlawful :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters"

adj. not morally right or permissible; "unlawful love"

adj. having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne"

adj. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"

illegitimate, outlaw, illicit, outlawed

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

undignified

adj. lacking dignity

open, lawless, wide-open

adj. lax in enforcing laws; "a wide-open town"

wrong, incorrect

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

out, taboo, tabu, prohibited, forbidden, proscribed

adj. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

corrupt, crooked

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

illegal

adj. prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"

adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular

adj. characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband"

adulterine

adj. conceived in adultery

base, baseborn

adj. illegitimate

fatherless

adj. not having a known or legally responsible father

left-handed

adj. (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"

jerking, jerky, arrhythmic, unsteady

adj. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

crooked, asymmetrical

adj. irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"

casual, occasional

adj. occuring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"

grab

adj. taken or to be taken at random: "grab samples"

randomized

adj. set up or distributed in a deliberately random way

straggly

adj. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"

strong

adj. of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"

substandard

adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

amerceable

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

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

contraband, bootleg, black-market, 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. recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"

misbranded, mislabeled

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

punishable, penal

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

under-the-counter, under the counter

adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly

unratified

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

lawful

adj. conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"

legal

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

sanctioned, ratified

adj. formally approved and invested with legal authority

legal

adj. "legal thinking"

legal

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

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