Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an illicit manner; unlawfully.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an illicit manner; illegally, immorally or inappropriately.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an illegal manner
- adv. in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom
Examples
“Clenbuterol was banned by the European Union in 1996 but it is still administered illicitly by some cattle farmers.”
Contador suspended one year, stripped of 2010 Tour de France title
“One in four GIs admit to illicitly using narcotic medication during a 12-month period, according to a 2008 Pentagon health survey.”
“Going after his plane usage is silly and they have wasted more money on their "investigation" than total amount spent on the handful of hours they claim were illicitly used.”
“New York prosecutors accused Iran's largest shipping company of illicitly moving more than $60 million through bank accounts in violation of U.S. sanctions.”
“In 2007, the word of the year according to Australia's Macquarie Dictionary was "pod-slurping", a term for illicitly using a device such as an iPod to download data from someone else's computer.”
“Winfield later told investigators that Gibbs had illicitly acquired the pineapple-shaped grenades so that his "kill team" could stage attacks, and planted them on the cleric's corpse as part of a coverup.”
“Purchasing machine guns illicitly and illegally in bulk only helps to ensure that future murders go unsolved.”
The Huffington Post: Morris W. O'Kelly: Rapper T.I. Gets 11 Months in Jail -- Hallelujah
“Campaigns fueled with illicitly filched funds derived from federal felonies are akin to a fencing operation.”
“Lieberman is suspected of illicitly receiving money and laundering it through shell companies.”
USA Today: Israeli AG announces plan to indict foreign minister
“Egypt's interim government issued subpoenas to the former leader and his sons over the weekend, compelling them to testify in court over claims that they illicitly acquired wealth and abused their power during Mubarak's three-decade reign over the Arab world's most populous nation.”
The Guardian: Mubarak suffers reported heart attack while facing Egypt's corruption claims
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘illicitly’.
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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ell
A macédoine of interesting words that feature the letter ell.
cellotaph, glass noodle, Llullaillaco, it'll, elevator surfer, diesel laundering, lushburg, illicitly, cataphile, splo, precellency, angelicalness and 43 more...
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