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Illegal meaning

  1. Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law.
  2. Forbidden by established rules.
  3. Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.

Synonyms of Illegal

illegitimate unlawful ill-gotten dirty felonious criminal smuggled contraband black-market black bootleg prohibited banned amerciable embezzled

Using Illegal

  • The main meaning on this page is: Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law. | Forbidden by established rules. | Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
  • Useful related words include: illegitimate, unlawful, ill-gotten, dirty.
  • In the example corpus, illegal often appears in combinations such as: of illegal, an illegal, the illegal.

Example sentences (20)

The courts that advocate this view see the mere publication of a hyperlink that connects to illegal material to be an illegal act in itself, regardless of whether referencing illegal material is illegal.

All three were arrested and face numerous charges, including Illegal Use of Weapons, Illegal Possession of Stolen Things, Illegal Possession of a Handgun, and Flight from an Officer.

The County is using building codes to shut down illegal marijuana operations, serving illegal dispensaries with 10-day notices and ordering property owners to remove tenants involved in illegal marijuana sales.

In Canada it is also illegal to sell fake illegal drugs.

It was noted that over the month of November, measures to ensure the reliable protection of the state border, combating smuggling, illegal migration, and the illegal circulation of narcotics were continued.

Kamchenga said police are still investigating the case and the suspects will soon appear before court to answer charges of illegal entry and aiding illegal immigrants respectively.

Lancashire has been revealed as a hotspot for illegal vapes, with 14,552 illegal vape seizures since last year.

Seattle is looking to take a small step in rejoining the civilized world by making illegal drugs illegal again.

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Suspected illegal migrants sit on the ground after they were detained by German police during their patrol along the German-Polish border to prevent illegal migration, in Forst, Germany, September 20, 2023.

The Indigenous patrols had been successful at times, including leading authorities to a poacher with 650 pounds of illegal game and nearly 900 pounds of illegal fish.

The police also nabbed 28 illegal loggers and coconut cutters, 68 persons engaged in illegal and destructive fishing activities and 25 holders of undocumented firearms.

The South African Police Service (Saps) last Thursday destroyed 18 927 illegal firearms as part of operations to detect and remove illegal firearms and ammunition from the hands of criminals.

The southern border has hit numbers of illegal immigrants passing through, with over 188,000 illegal migrants encountered in October alone, according to data from the U.S Customs and Border Protection.

While many are like the Tyre Nichols case in Memphis—a chase on foot after an illegal bails out of his vehicle—a significant number are long ones over rough desert terrain after an illegal climbed a border fence.

As part of its week-long oversight visit to North West and Gauteng, the committee conducted a walk-about at Van Ryan illegal mining site to gain an appreciation of the extent of illegal activities taking place there.

Days after police addressed two Illawarra high schools about illegal e-scooters they blitzed high traffic locations and issued almost a dozen fines for illegal riding.

In addition to the drugs and cash, officers also seized an illegal firearm and packaging materials that detectives believe further supported the suspected illegal activities taking place at the residence.

Lawrence Wilkerson: We are illegal, illegal under international law and under our own domestic law.

Not only will it be illegal to have, sell, manufacture or move said weapons, but having words or images on them relating to violence is not required to be classified as an illegal weapon.

Prof Minns criticises Trump’s stopping of illegal immigrants in the form of a physical wall, but Biden built more of Trump’s wall when he said he wouldn’t after realising he’d let in a record number of illegal immigrants.

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Common combinations with illegal

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • of illegal 30×
  • an illegal 22×
  • the illegal 22×
  • illegal immigrants 17×
  • is illegal 13×
  • in illegal 11×
  • illegal to 11×
  • illegal drugs 11×
  • illegal and 11×
  • and illegal 11×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "illegal" in a sentence?
An example: "The courts that advocate this view see the mere publication of a hyperlink that connects to illegal material to be an illegal act in itself, regardless of whether referencing illegal material is illegal." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "illegal" from authentic English texts.
What does "illegal" mean?
Illegal means: Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law.
What are synonyms of "illegal"?
Common synonyms of "illegal" include: illegitimate, unlawful, ill-gotten, dirty, felonious, criminal, smuggled, contraband. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "illegal" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "illegal", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.