UNLAWFUL in a Sentence

Learn UNLAWFUL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for UNLAWFUL, such as:

1. Discrimination on the grounds of sex or race is unlawful.
2. He was convicted of having unlawful sex with an underage girl.
3. Racist remarks by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNLAWFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unlawful
 a.  contrary to or forbidden by law
 a.  not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
Classic Sentence:
1  All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence:
1  Racist remarks by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination.
2  Discrimination on the grounds of sex or race is unlawful.
3  He was convicted of having unlawful sex with an underage girl.
4  I was engaging in justifiable self-defense or resisting an actual unlawful arrest.