Sentence examples for illicit in from inspiring English sources

"O people, these elections are illicit in the legislation of our Lord".

It lists every athlete, cyclist, weightlifter and snooker player who has been caught with something illicit in their urine.

The paradox, then, is that we need to create the illusion of the illicit in order to generate a sense of excitement.

"The public street isn't a living room," the judges ruled, saying, "The habit of accompanying a conversation with gestures, while certainly licit, becomes illicit" in some contexts.

Marianne's sexual relationship with Markus is, if anything, closer to the illicit in its strange, ravenous frenzy, while she and David, her cohort of the theater, are more like brother and sister, until one day they aren't.

I felt slightly illicit in crossing ideological lines: once, when the dean spotted me leaving a meeting, I felt as if I'd been caught walking out of an X-rated movie.

Teachers may also find an unexpected use for the MoPods: monitoring illicit in-class cellphone use.

The government said the defendants had made $130 million in illicit profits in a 10-year scheme.

"There's been an uninterrupted upsurge in illicit trade in ivory and rhino horns," Mr. Milliken said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has previously said that the brokerage firm earned about $2 million in illicit profit in the scheme.

In his guilty plea before District Judge Loretta Preska yesterday, Mr. Pace said that he had made $2.86 million in illicit profits in the three-year scheme.