Sentence examples for almost illicit from inspiring English sources

The pleasure seems almost illicit.

What I've done feels subversive, almost illicit.

We returned to the car with an almost illicit glee.

It felt almost illicit, reading of such luxury in such Spartan surroundings.

"The thrill of reading them was almost illicit — they seemed so glamorous and daring," he told me in an e-mail interview.

We explored, walking on rocks so smothered with living things -- California mussels, acorn barnacles, limpets that every footstep seemed cruel, almost illicit.

Almost all illicit small arms were legally manufactured or imported and were later diverted, often with help from corrupt officials and forged documents.

Almost five thousand illicit guns exist in the Middle Belt state of Plateau alone, according to Nigeria's Committee on the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, a government advisory group.

"Nude bodies almost immediately illicit assumptions, mainly of gender and ethnicity; and in placing them together you have to make a series of complex decisions about how power and hierarchy might end up being implied.

It feels illicit, almost like ransacking.

And, of course, more cigars -- those typically illicit, almost always coveted mementoes of Communist Cuba.