[
UK
/smˈʌɡəld/
]
[ US /ˈsməɡəɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈsməɡəɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
distributed or sold illicitly
the black economy pays no taxes
How To Use smuggled In A Sentence
- When one was obtained it had to be smuggled past the camp guards, then passed to one of our number who was able to translate the news.
- Oil was being smuggled illegally out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
- If the Tigers indeed wanted to regroup, which is what Sri Lanka fears the most, they would then invest any amount of money to have their remaining battle hardened cadres smuggled out of these camps. Kottu
- A JAILED drugs kingpin maintained his illicit empire from inside a prison cell with a smuggled mobile phone. The Sun
- The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.
- In spite of Pelican Bay's harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as "kites. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Sparkling jewellery smuggled through dark alleyways and fur coats stitched in countries where fur was never needed.
- He was so fond of a little taste every day that in the winter he smuggled in frozen hunks of it, dropping them on the hearth to thaw.
- I was high on morphine with a plate and six screws in my leg when he smuggled a six-pack of real beer into my Salt Lake City hospital room.
- Harry talks about the excise men being bamboozled by coffins being carried up the hill and across the moors containing, of course, smuggled booty rather than bodies.