What is another word for illegally?
Synonyms for illegally
il·le·gal·ly
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word illegally.
Wiktionary
Princeton's WordNet
illegally, illicitly, lawlesslyadverb
in an illegal manner
"they dumped the waste illegally"
Synonyms:
lawlessly, illegitimately, illicitly
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "illegally":
unlawfully, illicitly, illegal, illicit, clandestinely, irregularly, unlawful, illegitimately, wrongfully
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3556 | illegal | |
#12565 | unlawful | |
#18157 | illegally | |
#18565 | illicit | |
#40373 | unlawfully | |
#53536 | wrongfully | |
#54432 | irregularly | |
#131759 | clandestinely | |
#154719 | illicitly | |
#233788 | illegitimately |
How to use illegally in a sentence?
What we have is China pushing very hard into the South China Sea, physically, politically, illegally and diplomatically, and the United States refraining from doing very much at all.
The more we can eliminate legal markets in ivory, the more difficult it becomes to sell ivory illegally.
The ports of entry for those seeking asylum have been blocked, i went out there yesterday with a group of six other members of Congress. We saw the border guard standing there checking papers and only letting those across the bridge who already had visas to come into the United States, or American passports and so forth. They were blocking those who didn't have papers, who would be asserting themselves for asylum. So they're essentially forcing people to cross the border illegally or leave them stranded( on the) very dangerous Mexican side of the border.
What was going on before was that the USCIS approach to working these children up to be citizens was not consistent with the State Department's or the law, so we were acting illegally.
The Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans – many of them, they suffered – with an elaborate hoax.
Translations for illegally
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- بشكل غير قانونيArabic
- il·legalmentCatalan, Valencian
- illegalGerman
- ilegalmenteSpanish
- laittomastiFinnish
- illégalementFrench
- 違法Japanese
- nielegalniePolish
- ilegalmentePortuguese
- nelegal, ilegalRomanian
- незаконно, нелегальноRussian
- olagligtSwedish
- bất hợp phápVietnamese
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