illegality

Examples

• All

• We saw the the local law enforcement choose to not even prosecute looting and, you know, clear illegality in our streets last summer.

• You've always stated you were against any illegality by your officers.

  Cry Freedom (1987)

• But before that, in order not to commit an illegality, we have one thing to do first.

  Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)

• To me, it suggests possible illegality.

  The Last Days of Disco (1998)

• I mean, we're worried about illegality and people dying and diseases.

  I've Had It

• Ackerman and Katyal make a second argument regarding the illegality of the ratification process.

  Academic text (2016)

• The immigrant's survival of many years of illegality thus functions as a disciplinary enforcement of the subordination of her labor.

  Academic text (2016)

• Our main task, however, is to confront the problem raised by the Federalists' flagrant illegalities.

  Academic text (2016)

• Rather than establish a new and stable regime, revolutionary acts of illegality can catalyze an escalating cycle of incivility, violence, and civil war.

  Academic text (2016)

• The lawyer explained the consequences of the illegality involved in the contract.

Synonyms

I

illegitimacy

vsillegality

• Formal

4 7.3

Something that the law does not allow

highlights breaking the law rather than missing formal permission

U

unlawfulness

vsillegality

• Formal

1 6.8

Not following the law

is the same concept expressed with a different noun form

I

illicitness

vsillegality

7.9

A state of being illegal or forbidden by law

focuses on being contrary to law or violating statutes

Antonyms

L

legality

• Specialized

42 4.1

A state in which the law allows something

How Illegal

criminality

24 5.6

illegality

14 6.7

semilegality

9.5

legality

• Specialized

42 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology