illicitness

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Diversions visually suppressed shiftlessness or illicitness, or anything a bouncer had been instructed to keep out of a club.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

But evoking illicitness is important to their identity—it gives them the frisson of speaking the forbidden, a rhetorical strategy that Daum also deploys.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019

The risks and illicitness of it all is partly what attracts the otherwise buttoned-down Jean.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2017

Our exchange reeked of geopolitical illicitness; we were mere kilometres from the Bridge of Spies, where, during the Cold War, prisoners were traded.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2016

Illegality -- N. lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark