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unlawfully

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un·law·ful  (n-lôfl)
adj.
1. Not lawful; illegal.
2. Contrary to accepted morality or convention; illicit.
3. Of, relating to, or being a child or children born to unmarried parents.
un·lawful·ly adv.
un·lawful·ness n.
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Adv.1.unlawfully - not conforming to the law; "they were unlawfully married"
de jure, legally, lawfully - by law; conforming to the law; "we are lawfully wedded now"
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He remembered later the scandal over a boy, whom he had taken from the country to bring up, and, in a fit of rage, had so violently beaten that proceedings were brought against him for unlawfully wounding.
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