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Illegal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Not legal; unlawful; contrary to law; illicit; as an illegal act; illegal trade.

Illegal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.

Illegalities [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Illegality

Illegality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Contrariety to law; unlawfulness; as the illegality of trespass, or of false imprisonment.

Illegality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

Illegalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To render unlawful.

Illegalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

Illegalized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Illegalize

Illegalizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Illegalize

Illegally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a manner contrary to law; unlawfully; as a man illegally imprisoned.

Illegally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

Illegalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Illegality, unlawfulness.

Prohibition Roget’s Thesaurus §761

N. prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, maine law

V. prohibit, inhibit, forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop, bar, debar, forefend, keep in, keep within bounds, restrain, cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict, interdict, taboo, put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction, put under the ban, place under the ban, proscribe, exclude, shut out, shut the door, bolt the door, show the door, warn off, dash the cup from one's lips, forbid the banns

Adj. prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale

Adv. on no account

Int. forbid it heaven, &c. (deprecation) 766, hands off, keep off, hold, stop, desist, cease and desist, avast, phr, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, "go ahead; make my day "

Wrong Roget’s Thesaurus §923

N. wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, # malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice) 945, unlawfulness, robbing peter to pay paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"

V. be wrong, cry to heaven for vengeance, do wrong, be inequitable, favor, lean towards, encroach upon, impose upon, reap where one has not sown, give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile, rob peter to pay paul

Adj. wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box

Adv. wrongly

Phr. it will not do

Illegality Roget’s Thesaurus §964

N. lawlessness, # illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity, arbitrariness, antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry, mob law, lynch law, club law, lydford law, martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum, illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion, smuggling, poaching, simony, outlaw, bad man, 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

Adj. illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited, illicit, contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial, extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary, despotic, despotical, corrupt, summary, irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable, expired, invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated

Adv. illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law