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illicitly

/ih-lis-it/US // ɪˈlɪs ɪt //UK // (ɪˈlɪsɪt) //

违法,非法,违禁,非法的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
    • : disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons.

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Examples

  • Tillis and Cunningham had been locked in a tight race, but the Democrat had to answer in the campaign’s final weeks for illicit texts to a woman not his wife and revelations of infidelity.

  • A 2017 report by the Global Drug Survey found that magic mushrooms were less likely to send users to the emergency room than any other illicit drug.

  • High despair scores predicted illicit drug abuse and suicidal thoughts and behaviors regardless of whether 25- to 30-year-olds qualified as depressed.

  • You have this great chapter in the book where you talk about working with a digital forensics expert to find information hidden on the work computer of an employee suspected of illicit activity.

  • A weakened reward circuitry could be a cause of depression, which would help explain why people with depression may self-medicate by taking illicit drugs that boost dopamine.

  • Magomed illicitly made $1.3 million from this bridge loan scheme.

  • Jackson County has never had a feud; its chief lawlessness has been the promiscuous sale of whiskey, illicitly, of course.

  • His conduct had been inspired by "power illicitly obtained."

  • The night has a subdued preciousness, like an illicitly pregnant womans.

  • The average price of a two-year-old not thus illicitly vended was 70 yen.

  • It did not abolish smuggling, inasmuch as a letter might be sent illicitly for a penny.

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