Meanings
adverbunlegally (comparative more unlegally, superlative most unlegally)
comparative more unlegally · superlative most unlegally
- Not in a legal sense.
The Attorney General uses the word "outlaw" as poets or romancers might use it, unlegally and inaccurately.
1839, John Henry Barrow, The Mirror of Parliament for the Second Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, page 2509
Origin
From unlegal + -ly. Piecewise doublet of unloyally.
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unlegally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlegally
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“unlegally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlegally. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlegally,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlegally.
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