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US
/ˌɪɫiˈɡæɫɪti/
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[ UK /ɪliːɡˈælɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɪliːɡˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
- unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute
How To Use illegality In A Sentence
- But golf officials suspected that some club faces had been resharpened and were often verging on illegality.
- It is deeply regrettable that both before and since those two spills occurred, much more oil has been spilt due to illegality. Times, Sunday Times
- It seems to me that there must be cases when illegality can affect a letter of credit.
- One cannot dispute the illegality of last Monday's protests.
- But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
- I have read most of his books, and I think that he brilliantly attacked the illegality of the income tax.
- Therefore, it all dates back to the illegality of the magistrates.
- (Potere Operaio, No. 61, July 16, 1973) Even as late as November 1978, after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Negri's own magazine, Rosso (Red), far from condemning the escalating violence of the Red Brigades, wrote: "In claiming as its own all militant actions on the proletarian side, the movement must relaunch the initiative on the terrain of organized counterpower and mass illegality. 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
- His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories — illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
- But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.