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illicitly

adverb as in under the counter

adverb as in unlawfully

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Tillis and Cunningham had been locked in a tight race, but the Democrat had to answer in the campaign’s final weeks for illicit texts to a woman not his wife and revelations of infidelity.

A 2017 report by the Global Drug Survey found that magic mushrooms were less likely to send users to the emergency room than any other illicit drug.

High despair scores predicted illicit drug abuse and suicidal thoughts and behaviors regardless of whether 25- to 30-year-olds qualified as depressed.

You have this great chapter in the book where you talk about working with a digital forensics expert to find information hidden on the work computer of an employee suspected of illicit activity.

From Fortune

A weakened reward circuitry could be a cause of depression, which would help explain why people with depression may self-medicate by taking illicit drugs that boost dopamine.

Magomed illicitly made $1.3 million from this bridge loan scheme.

Jackson County has never had a feud; its chief lawlessness has been the promiscuous sale of whiskey, illicitly, of course.

His conduct had been inspired by "power illicitly obtained."

The night has a subdued preciousness, like an illicitly pregnant womans.

The average price of a two-year-old not thus illicitly vended was 70 yen.

It did not abolish smuggling, inasmuch as a letter might be sent illicitly for a penny.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to illicitly, such as: bootleg, and under-the-table.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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