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Definition of illegality:
Synonyms:
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illegality (part of speech: noun)
- injustice,
- unlawfulness,
- actionability,
- lawlessness,
- offensiveness,
- feloniousness,
- wrongfulness,
- illicitness,
- unjustness,
- punishability,
- unconstitutionality,
- criminality
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wrongness (part of speech: noun)
- badness,
- untruth,
- falsity,
- incorrectness,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- wrongness,
- mistake,
- inaccuracy,
- perversion,
- aberration,
- error,
- fallaciousness
Usage examples:
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Illegality was, however, checked to some extent by the generally wise and just influence of the chief justice, or kadi, whose probity often formed the best feature of the Arab government in Egypt.
- "The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI.", Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton. -
The assembly declared the illegality of previous imposts, voted them provisionally, as long as it continued to sit, and their cessation on its dissolution; it restored the confidence of capitalists by consolidating the public debt, and provided for the necessities of the people, by appointing a committee of subsistence.
- "History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814", F. A. M. Miguet. -
In most political cases he accused the government of the grossest injustice, illegality, and oppression.
- "Recollections of Europe", J. Fenimore Cooper.