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Illicit

adjective

Contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention.

Contrary to or forbidden by law. Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful. "Illicit trade" , "An outlaw strike" , "Unlawful measures"

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"Illicit" Quotes from Famous Books

... dream that she drinks absinthe with her lover warns her to resist his persuasions to illicit consummation of their love. If she dreams she is drunk, she will yield up her favors without strong persuasion. (This dream typifies that you are likely to waste your ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... sanctuary is not adequately protected from illicit hunting and trapping; but its full protection is now demanded, and no doubt this soon will be provided by the government. I am informed that this offers a golden opportunity to secure a fine wild-life sanctuary at ridiculously small cost to the public. The whole ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... until the Governor appeared in the guise of a monster of immorality. The editor of the Independent went himself to Buffalo and ran the rumors to their sources. He came to the conclusion that Cleveland as a young man had been guilty of an illicit connection, that he had made amends for the wrong which he had done and had since lived a blameless life. Such religious periodicals as the Unitarian Review, however, continued to describe him as a "debauchee" ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... should be worshipped; so that there are almost as many gods and modes of worship as people. In their morals, however, they are said to be irreproachable, even upon the principles of Christianity: No man is allowed more than one wife; yet an illicit commerce between the sexes is in a manner unknown among them: Instances of theft are very rare; and they are so far from revenging a supposed injury by murder, that if any difference arises between them, they will not so much as make ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr

... so terrible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influence of illicit ambitions. I am sure that I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies of the Central Empires with the same repulsion and deep indignation that they stir in the hearts of the men of France and Belgium, ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

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