Illicit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLICIT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• unlawful, forbidden
• forbidden by law, rules, or custom
• Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.
• contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention
• contrary to or forbidden by law
• illegal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not permitted

Words related to ILLICIT

illegal8 illicitly14 illicitness13

Words that contain ILLICIT

illicitly14 illicitness13 illicitnesses15

How to use ILLICIT in a sentence

• Two new witnesses were called to testify to the suggestion of the prosecution that illicit relations had existed between Sir Horace Fewbanks and Mrs.
• Not only was it one of the earliest groups, but the members took pains to widely distribute their illicit knowledge.
• The E911 Document, a particularly illicit piece of digital property, was about to resume its long, complex, and disastrous career.
• ABELARD and ELOISE, unhappy lovers, whose illicit love was succeeded by years of penitence and remorse.
• In fact, they achieve their purpose by alleging obstacles arising from their own illicit intercourse, before the marriage, with the relatives of their wives.
• The illicit trade could start again at once in full force, with means which elsewhere would have first to be created.
• Lucien could see, however, by the shaking of her hand that the Countess was suffering from one of those terrible emotions by which illicit joys are paid for.
• The writ of assistance had been used in Massachusetts in 1755 to prevent illicit trade with Canada and had aroused a violent hostility at that time.
• He had been an officer in the Chinese army, and it was a certainty that the trade he later drove in the China Seas was illicit.
• Moreover, Hindoo husbands declared, and believed, that if you taught a woman to read she would be sure in time to have illicit relations with some one.
• It must also be remembered that this cry of illicit knowledge, backed by more or less appropriate texts, has been used against every advance of human knowledge.
• And there cannot be a reasonable doubt that high-toned friendships of earnest men and women would be a holy and powerful restraint from illicit habits.
• His illicit connexion with the countess of Shrewsbury led to a duel with her husband at Barn Elms on the 16th of January 1668, in which Shrewsbury was fatally wounded.
• Never before has war worn so terrible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influence of illicit ambitions.
• Illicit intercourse has been a foul blot upon humanity from the earliest periods of history.
• She was serving her term of imprisonment for illicit sale of spirits.
• A few idlers caught in an illicit act and under threat of arrest.
• To-morrow I will answer for my offense of playing cards, which apparently, is an illicit pastime.
• Of course, I am not speaking of the women who, without economic pressure, lead an illicit life.
• Her unprincipled conduct, in leaving her own husband and forming an illicit connexion with Rackam, tended, however, to render her friends less active.
• Yet the thought did not disturb him so much as the strange, unpleasant, illicit atmosphere of the whole scene with the young people the night before.
• Nor does he appear to have been openly charged with illicit intimacy with other women after his marriage to Mrs.
• Dent had been a person very much concerned in that trade, and had made a large fortune, as I believe many others have done, by that illicit trade.

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