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lawful
adjective as in allowable, legitimate
Weak matches
- bona fide
- canonical
- card-carrying
- commanded
- condign
- decreed
- due
- enacted
- enforced
- enjoined
- established
- innocent
- judged
- judicial
- jural
- juridical
- jurisprudent
- just
- kosher
- legalized
- legislated
- legit
- legitimatized
- licit
- mandated
- of right
- official
- on the level
- on the up and up
- ordained
- ordered
- passed
- protected
- ruled
- vested
- warrantable
- warranted
Example Sentences
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said: "There is no doubt that many came to exercise their lawful right to protest, but there were many who came intent on violence."
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said officers said: "There is no doubt that many came to exercise their lawful right to protest, but there were many who came intent on violence."
Banks who have denied customers access to accounts, loans or credit cards “on the basis of political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities,” he said, would now feel the full force of government regulators.
Bovino wrote in another post that “these are lawful stops based on a hundred years of case law and Border Patrol expertise.”
He responded "I don't agree events this weekend have had a chilling effect on our democracy", adding that tens of thousands of people had been able to demonstrate "in an entirely reasonable and lawful way".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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