illicit

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Legal & illegal
bang to rightsidiom
bookable
bootleg
chargeable
concealed carryidiom
controverted election
criminally
illegality
improper
legitimate
legitimately
licensed
licitly
non-criminal
non-legal
shady
treasonable
unlawful
validity
validly

Examples of licit

licit
Respondents who reported higher levels of family risk reported lower levels of positive emotionality and more licit substance and recent alcohol use.
Overall, the rate of licit phoneme-to-phoneme mismatching, including devoicing cases, is very low.
Consequently, licit representations must identify the bearers of the correspondent tones.
They both produced licit and illicit null objects throughout the recording sessions, although most object omission conformed to the target language.
In cases of null and overt subjects, these were also coded for pragmatically licit and illicit or redundant uses.
However, this prenatal exposure is associated with numerous psychosocial risks, as well as exposure to other substances, both licit and illicit.
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.
Complicity with state and social purposes, licit or otherwise, can be subtle to the point of near-invisibility.
In this description of "the art of the possible," politics is licit and evident as can be.
In each case, the use of irrealis tense in the (b) example makes the indicated binding licit.
The more instances of a given licit segment there are in the corpus, the more obvious is the deviance of its deletion.
Today the state is the aggregate of all guilds and unions, which account for all licit human activity.
As was illustrated in the text examples in, postverbal subjects are licit in pro drop languages.
What is striking with respect to the incidence of null objects in imperatives is that the vast majority is licit.
Nevertheless, anything is licit when embedded in the complement clause of this verb, as in (104b).
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