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| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | black-market; unlawful |
| Synonyms: | banned, bootleg, forbidden, hot*, illegal, illicit, prohibited, shut out, taboo, unauthorized, verboten, bootlegged, disapproved, excluded, interdicted, proscribed, smuggled |
| Antonyms: | lawful, legal, permitted, allowed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
| Synonyms: | counterfeiting, crime, goods*, moonshine*, piracy, plunder, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, violation, bootlegging, dealing, poaching, rum-running, trafficking, wetbacking |
| Antonyms: | legal goods |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | bootleg |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegal |
| Synonyms: | contraband, illicit, unauthorized, unlawful, unofficial, black-market, bootlegged, pirated, smuggled, under-the-counter, unsanctioned |
| Antonyms: | legal |
| Main Entry: | forbidden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outlawed, prohibited |
| Synonyms: | banned, closed, contraband, out of bounds, refused, taboo*, verboten, vetoed, closed-down, closed-up, no-no, off limits, proscribed |
| Antonyms: | approved, authorized, permitted, sanctioned, allowed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illegal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | against the law |
| Synonyms: | banned, bootleg*, contraband, criminal, crooked, felonious, forbidden, heavy*, hot*, illegitimate, illicit, irregular, lawless, prohibited, racket, shady, sub rosa, taboo, unauthorized, unconstitutional, unlawful, unofficial, unwarranted, verboten, wildcat*, wrongful, actionable, black-market, extralegal, interdicted, not approved, not legal, outlawed, outside the law, proscribed, prosecutable, smuggled, under the table, unlicensed, unwarrantable, violating |
| Notes: | a form of conduct will be illicit and a type of practice will be illegal |
| Antonyms: | authorized, ethical, good, lawful, legal, legitimate, moral, permissible, right, allowed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illegitimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not legal |
| Synonyms: | contraband, illegal, illicit, improper, invalid, misbegotten, spurious, unauthorized, unconstitutional, unlawful, wicked, wrong, supposititious, unsanctioned |
| Antonyms: | authorized, blessed, ethical, justifiable, legal, legitimate, moral, sanctioned, warranted |
| Main Entry: | illicit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not legal; forbidden |
| Synonyms: | adulterous, bootleg*, clandestine, contraband, criminal, crooked, dirty*, felonious, furtive, guilty, heavy*, illegal, illegitimate, immoral, improper, lawless, prohibited, racket, unauthorized, unlawful, wrong, wrongful, black-market, contrary to law, in violation of law, out of line, unlicensed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, good, legal, legitimate, licit, moral, noble, proper, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prohibited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forbidden |
| Synonyms: | banned, contraband, crooked*, illegal, illicit, out of bounds, refused, restricted, shady*, taboo, verboten, vetoed, wildcat*, barred, closed down, no-no, not allowed, not approved, off limits, out of line, proscribed |
| Antonyms: | permitted, allowed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ad captandum, adulterated, artificial, babyshed, barefaced, bastard, bogus, brummagem, calophantic, catchpenny, catchy, colorable, contraband, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceived, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, disguised, double-dealing, elusive, ersatz, factitious, fair-weather, faithless, feigned, fraudulent, fucatory, ill-gotten, illegitimate, illicit, illusive, illusory, insidious, make-believe, meretricious, mock, parlous, pawky, pinchbeck, predatory, prestigiatory, prestigious, pretended, pseudo, rotten at the core, scamped, sham, simulated, so-called, sophisticated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, tinsel, tricky, trumped-up, two-faced, unconscionable, unscrupulous, unsound, unsupported by evidence, untrue, wildcat
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| Main Entry: | lawlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
actionable, arbitrary, contraband, despotic, despotical, exlegal, exlex, extrajudicial, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, informal, infract, injudicial, irresponsible, lawless, not allowed, nothous, null and void, prohibited, spurious, summary, unaccountable, unallowed, unanswerable, unauthorized, unchartered, unconstitutional, undue, unlawful, unofficial, unsanctioned, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usurped, violating
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| Main Entry: | prohibition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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contraband, exclusive, forbidding, illegal, not permitted, not to be thought of, prohibited, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, unauthorized, under the ban of, unlicensed, vetitive
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