illicitly

illicit | American Dictionary

illicit
adjective
us/ɪˈlɪs·ɪt/
illegal or socially disapproved of:
illicit trade
illicit activities

illicit | Business English

illicit
adjective
 LAWuk /ɪˈlɪsɪt/us
not allowed by law, or disapproved of by society:
illicit activities such as money laundering and counterfeiting
illicit sale/profit/trade

illicitly

adverb/ɪˈlɪsɪtli/
The information had been obtained illicitly.

Examples of illicit

illicit
The fact that epenthesis is used to avoid illicit coda clusters and vowel hiatus, but never to augment subminimal forms, results in a ranking paradox.
The triumph of enclosure reshaped celibate desires and the old culture of illicit sexuality was replaced by new and unsettling forms of sociability.
When one of these illicit rhyme types occurs, one of several rules applies, depending on the precise nature of the rhyme.
Indeed, when it comes to water, illicit self-provision is apparently seen as a more reliable means than the use of official public channels !
When illicit, as it must be in the wine poem, its transgressive nature is complete.
The rates of illicit drug use, and of regular and problematical use of all substances, were all significantly higher than those among non-cases.
The so-called sanluan (three unrulies, illicit fees, assessments and fundraising) falls in this category.
She maintains that architectural design and the built environment contributed to making what previously had been illicit working-class leisure behaviour respectable.
Another challenge for public health interventions directed to illicit drug users is difficulty reaching them because of societal marginalization.
Such gaps in the enclosure were often the sites of illicit exchanges between nuns and priests.
Targeted vaccination programmes were developed for illicit drug users and food workers.
In the former case, illicit infinitival and bare verb forms are produced alongside target-like finite forms, namely verbs bearing inflectional morphology.
Over the course of thousands of trials these illicit combinations were gradually extinguished.
The number of all (licit and illicit) object omissions in spontaneous interactions amounts to 25.3% in group 1 and 3.9% in group 2.
Therefore, prosecutors think pregnant women are criminally liable for using illicit drugs.
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