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  • adjective Of partial or questionable legality.

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ legal

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Examples

  • For $25, you can visit a "semilegal" firing range in Cambodia. $135 gets you a 2 hour course in gladiator school in Rome.

    TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends 2009

  • In the 1910s, semilegal vice commissions were formed in virtually every major city with the goal of the “absolute annihilation of the Social Evil.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • A pioneer of rural development, it had been at the front line of the semilegal town-and-village enterprise movement in the 1980s that went on to become a driving force of the national economy.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • A pioneer of rural development, it had been at the front line of the semilegal town-and-village enterprise movement in the 1980s that went on to become a driving force of the national economy.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • A pioneer of rural development, it had been at the front line of the semilegal town-and-village enterprise movement in the 1980s that went on to become a driving force of the national economy.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Trade with Iraq has rebounded to an estimated $1 billion annually, much of it semilegal oil trading by Kurd-ish groups.

    The Turkish Dilemma 2007

  • Certainly she had not foreseen her eventual membership on an "advisory" committee that was semilegal at best.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Certainly she had not foreseen her eventual membership on an "advisory" committee that was semilegal at best.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • There were people I might have asked to join me on the Barky Hunt: a smart young bodybuilder and an ex-ZP officer who'd started as hired hands and later became my friends; a small group of retired Rampart security agents recruited by Karl Nazarian to assist my semilegal campaign against Galapharma; even several private investigators I'd worked with during my Reversionist period.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Later upon the very evening that Switters had hired Inti, the Indian had been caught trying to peddle the ocelot on the fringe of Pucallpa's semilegal parrot market.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

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