unlawful Definition
un·law·ful (-lô′fəl)
adjective
- against the law; illegal
- against moral or ethical standards; immoral
unlawful Related Forms
un·law′·fully adverb
un·law′·ful·ness noun
unlawful Synonyms
unlawful Law Definition
adj
- Not authorized by law; illegal.
- Punishable under criminal law.
- Characterized by moral corruption.
unlawful Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
render: The OFT ruling in any case is spearate from the laws already in place that render these charges unlawful.
Modifies a noun
- discrimination: In October 2006 the law will be amended to include unlawful discrimination on the ground of age.
- killing: At a later inquest the jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing.
- deduction: They are also protected from unlawful deductions from their salary.
- eviction: This would be unlawful eviction, which is a criminal offense.
- combatant: Instead he offers us a linguistic and legal leap into the unknown, describing them as ' unlawful combatants ' .
- intercourse: Roman Polanski had pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl in 1977.
Modifying Another Word
- otherwise: The assessment of necessity must be made at the time the decision is made to commit the otherwise unlawful act.
- potentially: Legality: discrimination on the grounds of race, gender and disability are potentially unlawful.
- therefore: To address any creation by such a name, is therefore unlawful.
Infinitive complement
- treat: It is unlawful to treat disabled people less favorably than non-disabled people.
- refuse: It is unlawful to refuse someone a job because they are pregnant.
Used with adjective complement
- declare: Was this oversight of such severity as to require the entire project being declared unlawful?
- become: Discrimination on the grounds of age will become unlawful from October 2006.
- rule: However, it was ruled unlawful by a German court on the grounds of being anti-competitive [ 5 ] .
Preposition: in
employment: The law makes sexual harassment - and harassment on the ground of sex - explicitly unlawful in employment or vocational training.
Preposition: for
- employer: Under the DDA it is now unlawful for an employer to operate blanket bans on the recruitment of people with diabetes.
- provider: It is now unlawful for education providers to treat disabled people ' less favorably ' than they treat non-disabled people.
- authority: This section states that it is unlawful for a public authority to act in a way, which is incompatible with a Convention Right.
- person: Management It is unlawful for a person managing any premises to discriminate against disabled people occupying those premises.
Browse dictionary entries near unlawful
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- ‹ unlade
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- ‹ Unknown Soldier
- ‹ unknown
- ‹ unknowing
- ‹ unknowable
- ‹ unknot
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