Sentence examples for illicit about from inspiring English sources

There is something illicit about eavesdropping.

But there was nothing illicit about her arrival after dark.

Legal experts note that there is nothing inherently illicit about hiring well-connected people.

And partly because Polaroids cut out the developer, there was also something furtive and slightly illicit about them.

One could argue that the gin fizz also has a sense of the illicit about it: those raw egg whites will not win the nod of approval from the food police.

For one thing, there is nothing inherently illicit about hiring well-connected people, and prosecutors may have struggled to show an explicit quid pro quo from the bank to Chinese officials.

About 40% of substances detected at postmortem examinations were illicit and about 60% were licit.

The S.E.C. said that Whittier earned profits and avoided losses of about $725,000 by trading on illicit tips about Dell as well as the technology companies Nvidia and Wind River Systems.

Information about illicit flows are kept secret and efforts to address the situation are often discouraged.

It says something that the grossest joke on "Rick & Steve" thus far hasn't been about illicit sex but about procreation.

The prosecutor, Reed Brodsky, said that Mr. Loeb had passed illicit tips about Intel, Apple and Hewlett-Packard to Mr. Rajaratnam.