Illicit
adjective
Something that is not allowed by law or rules.
She was involved in illicit drug trade.
Often appears as...
- illicit drugs
- illicit affairs
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Disapproving
adjective
Not morally acceptable or honourable.
He was accused of having an illicit relationship.
Often appears as...
- illicit relationship
- illicit love
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Disapproving
adjective
Something that is not allowed by law or rules.
She was involved in illicit drug trade.
Often appears as...
- illicit drugs
- illicit affairs
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not morally acceptable or honourable.
He was accused of having an illicit relationship.
Often appears as...
- illicit relationship
- illicit love
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Use 'illicit' to describe actions or items banned by laws, like smuggling or unapproved medications.
She was caught selling illicit copies of movies online.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Reporting
Journalists often use 'illicit' when reporting on illegal trade or criminal activities.
Police busted an illicit weapons ring in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Overtone of Secrecy
'Illicit' carries a sense of secrecy; it's used for things done in hidden or sneaky ways.
The corporation was fined for its illicit dumping of toxic waste.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Use 'illicit' to describe actions or items banned by laws, like smuggling or unapproved medications.
She was caught selling illicit copies of movies online.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Reporting
Journalists often use 'illicit' when reporting on illegal trade or criminal activities.
Police busted an illicit weapons ring in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Overtone of Secrecy
'Illicit' carries a sense of secrecy; it's used for things done in hidden or sneaky ways.
The corporation was fined for its illicit dumping of toxic waste.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Use 'illicit' to describe actions or items banned by laws, like smuggling or unapproved medications.
She was caught selling illicit copies of movies online.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Reporting
Journalists often use 'illicit' when reporting on illegal trade or criminal activities.
Police busted an illicit weapons ring in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Overtone of Secrecy
'Illicit' carries a sense of secrecy; it's used for things done in hidden or sneaky ways.
The corporation was fined for its illicit dumping of toxic waste.
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The happy secret to...
and they said, "We already know that. So every year, instead of just teaching our students, we have a wellness week. And we're so excited. Monday night we have the world's leading expert will speak about adolescent depression. Tuesday night it's school violence and bullying. Wednesday night is eating disorders. Thursday night is illicit drug use.
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What does it take to...
of the language they actually derive from older words that mean to try and to repair focusing on just the first one cheville ooh the idea of trying something allows for the possibility of failure for example I'm going to try to get this talk under six minutes and I'm going to fail miserably so it's illicit you could say that you could try
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Bloodwood: Rosewood...
illicit rosewood I pretend to be the lighter blocking book huh and sometime I cook for them I sleep inside a jungle dinner to get information and to get them in evidence Cambodia is one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world no one can do
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Asher Jay: Art as a...
as well as to tell every angle of the story. So this is to cast a light on the terror attacks and the trade in firearms because illicit contraband does contribute to that. It's almost important to educate the Chinese demographic
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What causes opioid...
similar to these opiates, including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Whether synthetic or derived from opium, these compounds are collectively known as opioids. Synthetic or natural, legal or illicit, opioid drugs
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The dangers of mixing...
Foods, herbal supplements, legal drugs, and illicit substances can all cause drug interactions. Most drug interactions fall into two categories. Some take place when two substances’ effects influence each other directly.
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How film transforms the...
women who choose to marry on their own free will; or women who are looking for a divorce; or women who are suspected of having illicit relationships. In the rest of the world, honor killings would be known as murder.
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Misha Glenny investigates...
examining this global criminal underworld by talking to policemen, by talking to victims, by talking to consumers of illicit goods and services. But above all else, by talking to the gangsters themselves.
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Best Monkey Moments PIPE...
his authority the illicit couple just sit the suitor seems to be using his hand to hide his grimace he probably doesn't want trouble chimps baboons and macaques may also try
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Defending a Monkey Harem...
he has to decide what to do. Girls mostly sneak off secretly for affairs. This is a blatant challenge to his authority. The illicit couple just sit.
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The happy secret to...
and they said, "We already know that. So every year, instead of just teaching our students, we have a wellness week. And we're so excited. Monday night we have the world's leading expert will speak about adolescent depression. Tuesday night it's school violence and bullying. Wednesday night is eating disorders. Thursday night is illicit drug use.
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What does it take to...
of the language they actually derive from older words that mean to try and to repair focusing on just the first one cheville ooh the idea of trying something allows for the possibility of failure for example I'm going to try to get this talk under six minutes and I'm going to fail miserably so it's illicit you could say that you could try
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Bloodwood: Rosewood...
illicit rosewood I pretend to be the lighter blocking book huh and sometime I cook for them I sleep inside a jungle dinner to get information and to get them in evidence Cambodia is one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world no one can do
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Asher Jay: Art as a...
as well as to tell every angle of the story. So this is to cast a light on the terror attacks and the trade in firearms because illicit contraband does contribute to that. It's almost important to educate the Chinese demographic
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What causes opioid...
similar to these opiates, including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Whether synthetic or derived from opium, these compounds are collectively known as opioids. Synthetic or natural, legal or illicit, opioid drugs
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The dangers of mixing...
Foods, herbal supplements, legal drugs, and illicit substances can all cause drug interactions. Most drug interactions fall into two categories. Some take place when two substances’ effects influence each other directly.
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How film transforms the...
women who choose to marry on their own free will; or women who are looking for a divorce; or women who are suspected of having illicit relationships. In the rest of the world, honor killings would be known as murder.
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Misha Glenny investigates...
examining this global criminal underworld by talking to policemen, by talking to victims, by talking to consumers of illicit goods and services. But above all else, by talking to the gangsters themselves.
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Best Monkey Moments PIPE...
his authority the illicit couple just sit the suitor seems to be using his hand to hide his grimace he probably doesn't want trouble chimps baboons and macaques may also try
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Defending a Monkey Harem...
he has to decide what to do. Girls mostly sneak off secretly for affairs. This is a blatant challenge to his authority. The illicit couple just sit.
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Sharan Burrow
Welsh Activist
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
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Beth Grant
American Actress
I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.
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Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term.
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Michael Trucco
American Actor
The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.
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J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural telephone customers aren't always assured of that.
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Sarah Churchwell
American Educator
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
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Thomas Mann
German Writer
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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John McAfee
American Businessman
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
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Meryl Streep
American Actress
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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Sharan Burrow
Welsh Activist
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
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Beth Grant
American Actress
I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.
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Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term.
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Michael Trucco
American Actor
The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.
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J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural telephone customers aren't always assured of that.
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Sarah Churchwell
American Educator
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
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Thomas Mann
German Writer
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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John McAfee
American Businessman
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
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Meryl Streep
American Actress
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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