Sharan Burrow

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.

Welsh Activist

Beth Grant

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.

American Actress

Yemi Osinbajo

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.

Nigerian Politician

Michael Trucco

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.

American Actor

J. D. Salinger

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.

American Novelist

Ajit Pai

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.

American Public Servant

Sarah Churchwell

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.

American Educator

Thomas Mann

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.

German Writer

John McAfee

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

American Businessman

Meryl Streep

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Use 'illicit' to describe actions or items banned by laws, like smuggling or unapproved medications.

Legal Context

Journalists often use 'illicit' when reporting on illegal trade or criminal activities.

Media Reporting

'Illicit' carries a sense of secrecy; it's used for things done in hidden or sneaky ways.

Overtone of Secrecy

Use 'illicit' in contexts where there's a breach of social ethics or personal morals.

Moral Judgment

'Illicit' is often used when detailing affairs or relationships that are considered socially inappropriate.

Personal Scandals

What is 'illicit' in moral terms can vary widely with culture: always consider the cultural background.

Cultural Variance

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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.

Illicit

Something that is not allowed by law or rules.

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Not morally acceptable or honourable.

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