Sentence examples for illicitly from inspiring English sources

"illicitly" is a correct and usable word in written English
It means "done unlawfully or with illegal or improper intent". For example, "She illicitly obtained the confidential documents and sold them to a competitor."

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illicitly

adverb

In an illicit manner; illegally, immorally or inappropriately.

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I think there are two separate issues: was it right to use terrorism legislation and secondly was it right to stop and search and find out whether he was carrying data illicitly obtained that would be dangerous to the British nation and to the things we hold dear?

In Honduras last February, I witnessed bulldozers clearing mangroves to reestablish two abandoned shrimp farms that were illicitly constructed in a declared Ramsar site.

Caveon and Prometric operate "web patrol" software that hunts day and night for illicitly revealed test information.

Every week, it seems, the local press has stories about people who have illicitly squirrelled away huge sums.The fact that these crimes are now reported is itself a step forward.

Now he can look forward to 2011, basking in the reflected glory of a sporting choice made only a couple of days after revelations, thanks to WikiLeaks, that American diplomats consider his country a "virtual mafia state" and reckon that he has illicitly squirreled away a personal fortune.

Indeed, this week newspapers in Seville cheerfully reported that another 40m Spanish olive trees are about to come into production, on top of more than 300m already bearing fruit in Spain and around 500m across the rest of the EU.Many of the new plantations, as well as illicitly winning subsidies, have been planted where forests have been illegally cleared.

Its customers can find out how many times, and where, a song has been illicitly downloaded, for example, what the figure was five weeks ago, what other music its fans like, and so on".It doesn't make sense to put your head in the sand," says Ken Bunt, head of marketing at Disney's Hollywood Records, a BigChampagne customer.

Then let the fisherman catch as many fish as they want with the understanding that too many trips to the well will leave them with, not a tidy haul of illicitly earned cash, but a hold full of rotting fish that can't be sold anywhere rich enough to buy them".Cap and trade" has proven very effective at solving other environmental problems, so why not this one?

Mr de la Calle suggests limiting the time allowed for electoral campaigning, so that politicians see less need to finance themselves illicitly.

PP campaign managers have been accused of, among other things, asking building contractors to put money illicitly into party coffers before the 1987 election in Castile, when Mr Aznar himself won the regional presidency.

If governments paid their public officials better, such people would have less need to supplement their incomes illicitly, and more to lose by getting caught.The fly in this ointment is the assumption that officials are driven to corruption by necessity.

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