Synonyms for lawfully
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1. legitimately, lawfully, licitlyadverb

   in a manner acceptable to common custom

   "you cannot do this legitimately!"

   Synonyms:
   licitly, legally, legitimately, de jure

   Antonyms:
   lawlessly, unlawfully, illicitly, illegally

2. legally, lawfully, de jureadverb

   by law; conforming to the law

   "we are lawfully wedded now"

   Synonyms:
   licitly, legally, legitimately, de jure

   Antonyms:
   lawlessly, unlawfully, illicitly, illegally

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1. List of paraphrases for "lawfully":

   legally, legitimately, licit, rightfully

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1. Michael Hallowes:

   The ability to remotely monitor and manage the human impacts of this coronavirus through data our mobile phones naturally generate and operator networks process lawfully everyday has got to be of great utility to protecting our key workers from having to encounter people in breach, as well was giving us the analysis in real time of how widespread the infection is.

2. Sanjay Mehrotra:

   We determined that we could lawfully resume shipping a subset of current products because they are not subject to export administration regulations and entity list restrictions, however, there is considerable ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Huawei situation, and we are unable to predict the volumes or time periods over which we will be able to ship products to Huawei.

3. Benedict Coyne:

   If it is found that the decision was not made lawfully, then any (further) decisions are called into question.

4. White House:

   Everyone in this country is affected by this program and so everyone should be allowed to provide their government with their views, and the plaintiffs here were denied that process. while opponents of our plan are siding with special interests and trying every which way to keep millions of middle class Americans in debt, the President and his Administration are fighting to lawfully give middle-class families some breathing room as they recover from the pandemic and prepare to resume loan payments in January.

5. Larry Ottaway:

   Janssen's conduct was not a nuisance, they provided medically necessary medications. ... They were lawfully( prescribed) by doctors in the state of Oklahoma.